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Hi, I'm Jonny-Bix. I'm a Berlin-based curator, dramaturg, artist and researcher working across performance, AI and digital culture.
I create exhibitions, performances and public programmes that explore how new technologies shape the way we relate to one another, tell stories and imagine the future.
I'm interested in making complex technological and social questions tangible through artistic experiences that invite curiosity, conversation and new perspectives.
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Phantom, you are not my kin!
Interactive Installation
Concept: Jonny-Bix Bongers
Creative Coding, Development: Eman Safavi
Phantom, you are not my kin! turns a historical dressing table into an encounter with the poetry of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff. As visitors look into the mirror, a camera-based system interprets their facial expressions and triggers fragments of poetry that appear on its surface.
The installation draws on two poems that approach identity from different directions. In Das Spiegelbild, one’s own reflection becomes an unsettling stranger. Am Thurme voices a desire for wildness and freedom from prescribed roles and social expectations. Together, they give shape to the work’s central tension: between how we see ourselves, how we are perceived, and who we might wish to become.
Here, that tension also involves a computational reading of the visitor’s face. The encounter brings nineteenth-century poetry into contact with contemporary technologies of perception, raising questions about how identity is interpreted and constructed, and how much room these readings leave for becoming someone else.
Credits:
Developed for Haus Rüschhaus, Münster. Based on the poetry of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, particularly Das Spiegelbild and Am Thurme. Realised using camera-based facial analysis, TouchDesigner, and an interactive mirror display.
2026