Big Tech’s machinery for collecting, processing, and trading data has burrowed into the foundations of our decision-making. This work titled The Last Course Is You reframes that structure as a meal. Participants, seated as diners in a restaurant, appear free to order. Yet with each choice, their bodies change—rooting, undermining branches and leaves, and bearing ripe fruit. The metamorphosis reveals how those meant to choose freely become the data itself, served for Big Tech’s consumption.
The Last Course Is You / Aritomi Haku, Nisio Takuma, Komai Hiroki, Ono Nagisa, Koyama Iroha, Tabuchi Fumiya, Nada Ryota, Fujino Koharu, Kinoshita Emiri, Kitano Ayumu, Kubota Kenji, Ando Hideyuki - Photo: Osaka University of Arts
Exhibit
The Last Course Is You
Aritomi Haku (JP), Nisio Takuma (JP), Komai Hiroki (JP), Ono Nagisa (JP), Koyama Iroha (JP), Tabuchi Fumiya (JP), Nada Ryota (JP), Fujino Koharu (JP), Kinoshita Emiri (JP), Kitano Ayumu (JP), Kubota Kenji (JP), Ando Hideyuki (JP)
The Last Course Is You / Aritomi Haku; Nisio Takuma; Komai Hiroki; Ono Nagisa; Koyama Iroha; Tabuchi Fumiya; Nada Ryota; Fujino Koharu; Kinoshita Emiri; Kitano Ayumu; Kubota Kenji; Ando Hideyuki - Photo: Osaka University of Arts
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