Bringing together eight trans-disciplinary artists, algo-rhythmic-bodies examines how digital technologies and algorithmic systems increasingly shape our lives. Through themes of surveillance, visibility, agency, and the environmental impact of digital infrastructures, the exhibition invites audiences to reflect critically and consciously on living within an increasingly data-driven world.

Participants: Dipti Datta, Fahim Hasin, Joyantee Raina, Naznin Ahmed, Razib Datta, Sadia Marium, Shoummo Saha, Walid Saddam
Curator: Sharmillie Rahman
Technical resource lead: Zihan Karim
The exhibition is commissioned by the British Council’s Women of the World (WOW) Bangladesh 2026 programme.

10 – 24 July 2026
Level 7, Bengal Shilpalay, House 42, Road 27, Dhanmondi, Dhaka
On view until Saturday, 25 July 2026, every day from 4 to 8 PM.

The show was inaugurated at 6 PM on Friday, July 10, 2026, jointly by Professor Samina Luthfa of the Department of Sociology, University of Dhaka; Oliur Rahman Sun, Lecturer, Department of English & Humanities, ULAB; along with artist, writer and curator Mustafa Zaman.

Curatorial note
Within the rhythm—a scroll, a pause, a notification, a response or the rituals of a contemporary life—we are governed by algorithmic systems of optimization, hypervisibility, connectivity and surplus information. Situated in the peripheries of global techno-hubs, our everyday visual practices, social interactions and selfhood are heavily informed by the computational regime.
Inside the digital architecture of browse-like-subscribe-follow, the body loses its moorings as an autonomous being and dissipates into a coded trace, vulnerable to data extraction, surveillance, and monetization. The digital euphoria has set the stage for neo-colonialism. Stealing identities, substituting knowledge with information, deterritorializing contexts, the algorithmic economy turns individuals into disproportionate capital gain.
In response, each body of work turns a critical gaze upon a point of friction: where bodily time resists machine time; where endless scrolling becomes absurd; where repetition becomes disruptive; and where visibility is negotiated through irony, humour, vulnerability, or the body’s refusal to comply.
algo-rhythmic-bodies unfolds across changing relationship with material culture, the gendered politics of visibility and erasure, the blurred boundaries between the personal and the public, and the environmental consequences of data-driven infrastructures. Embracing uncertainty, unpredictability, and the irreducible complexity of lived experience, the exhibition imagines the body as a site of resistance, a form of malware within systems designed to classify, optimise, and control.
Bringing together eight practitioners across disciplines—from visual art and photography to architecture, music, and research—our approach is grounded in process, participation, experimentation and dialogue-based mentorship. With an oeuvre of holographic animation, VR enhancement, live streaming and much more, algo-rhythmic-bodies is an invitation to linger with unease yet imagine new rhythms for living with and against the algorithm.