As the digital mediates our perception, our memories, and even our bodies, the boundaries between the organic and the machinic are becoming increasingly porous. Rather than seeing the body and the machine as separate entities in conflict or control, Are You Human? creates space to approach them connectedly. It explores how bodies become sites of data production, how interfaces encode bias, and how public spaces are increasingly determined by invisible systems of extraction and automation.

Are you Human? is an inquiry which has emerged from the urgency to understand how evolving technologies transform and reorganize what it means to be human, to inhabit gender, class and other socio-ecological formations, in the 2020s and beyond, globally.

Can technology, ecology, and society exist in dialogue? In harmony, even?

What can feminist code offer in dismantling the patriarchal foundations of digital space?

As technologies and Al advances, how do surveillance systems extract intimacy from already vulnerable bodies, and what forms of resistance emerge?

In a moment when truth is unstable and realities are increasingly manufactured, what becomes of democracy? How is technology reconfiguring relations between centres and peripheries?

Special thanks to Marie McPartlin, Director, Somerset House Studios; Laura Welzenbach, Head of Ars Electronica Export; Louise M. Hisayasu, Creative Lead Producer at Tactical Tech; and Dr. Gowdham Prabhakar, Assistant Professor, Department of Design, IIT Kanpur; Aditi Somani and Ruchika Dhillon, Khoj Fellows 2024 – 2025.