The Raceful Dead project analyzes contemporary human relationships with technology, focusing on the tension between support and oppression, acceleration and overload. It offers both a physical and symbolic take on ambition within a dromological world order and late capitalism, in which technologies originally designed to help, whether at the level of the body or perception, can become weights, parasites imposing their own logic of action. The humanoid figure is shown in a running position, which symbolically refers to the physical exertion of the body as an individual struggle, but also as a way of moving without mechanical or electrical transportation. An object resembling a backpack is attached to the figure’s back. Its function remains unclear: it can be interpreted as a supportive element or as a parasitic structure, potentially helpful but at the same time invasive or oppressive. Sensors detect motion. The object responds with movement and sound generated by a trained AI model.
The project was developed in collaboration with M.Sc. Eng. Franciszek Sobiech from the Faculty of Electrical, Electronic, Computer and Control Engineering, Lodz University of Technology.