2024

Beauty and The Beep

Beauty and The Beep is a 13-minute Unity-generated film that follows Bertil, a digital chair navigating a simulated suburban home haunted by incessant smart-device notifications. By exploring how a robot dog—or a chair—deciphers home environments, the work critiques the invisible labor and surveillance embedded in domestic AI systems. Chaotic interactions with objects like bananas and treadmills highlight the challenges of applying synthetic training data to real-life spaces. The narrative questions what it means to define privacy, intimacy, and environmental presence through technology—inviting reflection on how datafication and algorithmic systems reshape our homes and societal imaginaries.

Caileann Finn
Ireland
Digital surveillance / Techno-urban entanglement