Multimedia installation and performance project imagining a near future where images no longer depict the world, inspired by AI-generated dance trends.
Nina Davies is showing Image Syncers at the V&A South Kensington until Sunday 18 October, in the Design 1900-Now gallery (Room 74a, Level 2). It's a multimedia installation and performance project that imagines a near future where images no longer depict the world, and it takes its starting point from those viral TikTok trends where people mimic uncanny AI-generated dances. From there, it asks how we adapt ourselves to computational aesthetics.
The work unfolds as an episode of a fictional podcast: a video essay following a mysterious collective attempting to physically transform themselves into AI-generated figures. Holographic forms stand in as spectral doubles for the film's characters, while surrounding vitrines display the group's personal belongings, smartphones and analogue props like the costume and makeup used in the transformation process. It's as much about the process of changing as it is about the result.
Image Syncers is part of the V&A x London Design Festival 2026 programme, within the Digital Art Season 'On Agency', curated by Carrie Chan and produced by Faunsia Tucker. The whole thing has been on show since 12 September, so you've got until the 18th to catch it.
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Admission is free, and the gallery is open from 10.00 to 17.30. You'll find it at the V&A South Kensington, Design 1900-Now, Room 74a, Level 2, 74b Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL.
