Dark Patterns

Jessica Ekomane
Artwork
Sound installation, 2026

Created especially for the exhibition Boom Crash Candy Crush, the 4-channel sound piece Dark Patterns collages digital UI sounds, text-to-speech, electromagnetic harsh noise from digital hardware, computing companies' historical slogans, and ‘90s video game sample libraries into a maelstrom of disintegrating moments of ecstasy and failed promises.

Jessica Ekomane


Jessica Ekomane is a French-born and Berlin-based electronic musician and sound artist. Her performances, often quadraphonic, are characterised by their physical affect, seeking a cathartic effect through the interplay of rhythmic and tonal perception, and the tension between noise and melody.

Her first LP, Multivocal, was released in 2019 via Important Records. Since then, her work has had a widespread international presence in festivals, venues, contemporary art spaces and museums. She released Manifolds in 2024 as a split LP with Laurel Halo on Portraits GRM/Shelter Press.

She was one of the winners of the Villa Romana Prize 2023 in Florence and received one of the two ZKM Giga-Hertz production prizes that same year.


 

Boom Crash Candy Crush

What do an apparently innocent video game like Candy Crush, attention economies, and contemporary military infrastructures have in common? Featuring around twenty local and international artists, the exhibition explores how digital rewards and our interactions with screens fuel systems capable of shaping behaviour. A critical journey through the infrastructures that transform attention and data into highly valuable economic resources.

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