Denny and others shared live reactions as the debates unfolded, replicating the workings of a comments section or Twitter feed – offering crowdsourced reactions or, put otherwise, “Feedback as a Service”. Combining drawing, performance, and print, Regulation reflects the role of commentary as it functions on the internet – synthesized from a cacophony of official sources, with sense-making taking place in real time – commenting, in turn, on the EU’s attempt to regulate the online platforms where this activity unfolds.
The drawings produced during the parliamentary session were later framed and exhibited atop sculptural formations, which, in the installation space, form a physically-restrictive maze that conjures the bureaucratic architecture of airport security queues or border crossings. These meditations on the interplay between internet and law are continued in a series of Document Reliefs, which revive a now-outmoded 3D printing method from the 2010s to turn stacks of A4 paper – in this case, pages of privacy regulation documentation – into small relief prints.
