Developed as a new iteration of G80 an interactive installation inspired by Richard Buckminster Fuller's World Game - G16 translates questions of automation, labour, and decision-making into a gallery-scale kinetic artwork.

Taking the form of a circular mechanism reminiscent of an industrial component, the work brings together sixteen interconnected variables materialized through motorized sliders, each operating along a spectrum between a negative (–) and a positive (+) value. 

AI Agency, Algorithmic Transparency, Automation Bias, Blackout, Burnout, Carbon Footprint, Cognitive Offloading, Cooling Demand, Cost Efficiency, Data Extractivism, Human-in-the-Loop, Injury Risk, Job Precarity, Quality, Speed, and Standardization continuously influence one another, revealing the contradictions embedded within contemporary systems of optimisation.

Visitors are invited to manipulate the moving sliders in an attempt to regulate the machine. Yet each intervention generates new imbalances elsewhere, exposing the social deadlocks produced by the forced coexistence of human and machinic labour. Inspired by the logic of automated warehouses and industrial infrastructures, G16 stages a system that appears governable while gradually demonstrating the limits of control.