The Prior is a collection of three conceptual art pieces that examine how algorithmic systems shape us: how they predict our futures, install our beliefs, and direct our attention.
Each piece is an interactive experience that makes visible the mechanisms we usually don't see—the pipes, the models, the infrastructure that precedes our choices.
The Forecast asks you five questions and generates a prediction about your future. The prediction feels uncomfortably accurate. It might be. Or it might be a mirror angled to catch whatever you're already looking for.
The piece is about what happens when systems predict your future so confidently that the prediction starts to replace the life it claims to describe. Recommendation engines, credit scores, hiring algorithms—they don't just guess what you'll do. They shape what you're allowed to do.
The Injection asks what you believe about six topics—breakfast, diamonds, climate, diet, crime, corporations—and then shows you where those beliefs came from. Not your reasoning. The infrastructure that preceded it: the memos, the funding, the campaigns, the repetition.
Every supply chain in this piece is documented. Primary sources where they exist. Exposed industry memos. Congressional testimony. Academic investigations published decades after the fact.
The Feed examines how algorithmic systems shape what we pay attention to, and how attention shapes what we become. The piece explores the mechanisms by which platforms capture, direct, and monetize attention—turning consciousness into a resource to be extracted and optimized.
These three pieces work together to map the territory: prediction colonizes the future, injection installs the present, and the feed captures attention. Together, they form a portrait of how algorithmic systems don't just observe us—they construct us.
Each piece is accessible at its own subdomain. You can experience them individually, or as a collection. The installation is the collection itself: three pieces, three domains, one system.