Runners

2019-2021
2020, 44:24 min, color, sound
 
2019, 19:38 min, color, sound
 
2019, 22:28 min, color, sound
 
2019, 46:36 min, color, sound
 
2019, 64:30 min, color, sound
 
2020, 38:25 min, color, sound
 
2019, 31:02 min, color, sound
 
2019, 72:34 min, color, sound
 
2021, 33:49 min, color, sound
 
2021, 31:19 min, color, sound
 
2021, 20:10 min, color, sound
 
2021, 37:00 min, color, sound
 
2021, 34:46 min, color, sound
 
2020, 41:25 min, color, sound
 
2020, 37:28 min, color, sound
 

In this series of single-channel screen recordings of live bot performances on the social media feeds of various corporations, Arcangel uses simple gestures to call into question the genuineness of a brand's engagement with its customers, and to deflate the attempt to make this engagement less overtly transactional. Arcangel's use of a programmed bot facilitates monumental durational performances, occasionally extending to the length of a feature film. In installation, each work is to be displayed with a "landscape" orientation, to counter the ubiquitous vertical scroll of these feeds.