Apollyon's Ghost is a poem produced before and after Covid, between London and Berlin, that uses augmented reality to discuss technocracy, and the tension between public and private space.
The poem and its AR presentation explore the socio-political implications of increasingly centralised power's agency to edit 'reality'. 'Real world' sound fragments build on the spatial augmentation. The poem was written late 2018, but this project was created slowly during the time the pandemic began to change our lives, and is noticeable in the changing use of public space and time (physical and virtual). The poem first appeared in text form in the inaugural issue of
The Dark Preview, a research collective and appears as an installation in the group exhibition 'Midnight Sun' at
Black tower Projects, London in 2021.
We've long had an interest in the semantic structure of the city, and more recently both compelled and apprehensive about its increasing sentience. This project was also an opportunity to think about 'post aesthetics' within our virtual topography.