A short and cropped excerpt from Air Kiss (2017) — a film (HD, 19’38”) accompanied by a website and book. The project was produced during our participation in The New Normal, a research programme at the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design, directed by Benjamin Bratton. The film was a collaborative effort between Alina Kvirkveliya, Pavel Semyonovich, Pekka Airaxin, Karina Golubenko, and myself.

Air Kiss explores a speculative near-future in which governance has been largely outsourced to artificial intelligence. The backdrop of the narrative outlines a strategy for decentralised AI-governance systems. It raises questions about the sociopolitical, cultural, and spatial implications of a world where computation has become the environmental condition itself. When algorithms predict, decide, and even mediate inner dialogues, what remains of personal agency? The envisioned system is a real-time, universally fair democracy that operates by continuously polling users through behaviour and active input, shaping cities and landscapes algorithmically.