LAILA CHAOUI - CORPUS GLITCH

Corpus Glitch is an immersive, multi-sensory installation that redefines glitch not as error, but as rebellion—a political refusal of coherence, legibility, and control. Rooted in technofeminism, posthumanism, and digital hauntology, the work explores how bodies are misread, discarded, or rendered through mechanized, computational systems. Visitors become active participants, triggering distortions and contributing to a living, shapeshifting archive of fragmented responses. Through interactive browser experiences inspired by Glitch Feminism, the installation sanctifies glitched, corrupted, and misread bodies, creating hybrid entities that resist rigid recognition, haunt the systems that erase them, and inhabit the space between visibility and failure. Glitch becomes an act of resistance, a sanctuary for the spectral and the misrepresented.

Laila Chaoui is a multidisciplinary artist who graduated from the Fine Art program at ArtEZ University of the Arts in Enschede. Her work, including the project Corpus Glitch, explores the intersections of data, technology, organic matter, and decay, using glitch and cross-contamination as methods to reveal hidden systems and generative forces. She investigates how structures mutate, rot, or glitch, addressing tensions between disruption, resistance, and power, while questioning which bodies and spaces have the privilege to act outside systems.

This work was selected as part of Youngbloods, GOGBOT’s platform highlighting promising recent graduates.