SENSE_ERR stages a collapse—not of systems, but of the certainty they promised. It gathers interactive installations, speculative objects, and time-based media into one shared space, where perception becomes unstable, fragmented, and relational. Technologies in this exhibition perform not function, but doubt.
The projects range from an organ that watches you back to a sculptural hand that glitches its own gesture, from a silent desert witness to a customizable avatar and a neural interface as an emotional machine. Together, these works examine the soft machinery of refusal, surveillance, and identity, drawing from neuroscience, AI, and ancient automata to question how we sense and are sensed.
Presented by NYU Abu Dhabi, SENSE_ERR responds to the Ars Electronica focal point “Art, Technology & Society” by addressing the ambiguity of embodied interaction in an age of algorithmic behavior. Through aesthetic estrangement and experiential drift, it explores the possibility of protest as perception.
