Black Box is a joint intermedia project by Slovenian artists Sara Bezovšek and Dorijan Šiško that combines a video‑game‑like environment with spatial installation to reveal how algorithmic recommender systems shape what we see online and how we construct our identities from memes, symbols and aesthetic fragments.
In Black Box, Sara Bezovšek and Dorijan Šiško invite visitors into a deconstructed recommendation engine, where they move through interconnected levels built from internet imagery, pop‑cultural references and fringe digital folklore. Acting as a “player”, each visitor chooses paths through conflicting ideological and aesthetic zones, mirroring how timelines and feeds sort people into overlapping filter bubbles that can be seductive, confusing or outright contradictory. Because ideas and identities are rendered mainly as styles, icons and memes, the work uses this dense visual language to show how subjectivities are created, circulated and continually remixed by opaque algorithmic systems behind contemporary platforms.
