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A Lifeform sculpture on the cover of Espace magazine. The lifeform is pink and displayed on the screen of an iphone 6 in a custom white silicone holder. It rests in a furry bed, and is shot from above on the floor surrounded by cables A sculpture on a white surface: a Samsung smartphone suspended within a polished metal tripod frame by a chain and two white sculptural wing-like forms, a blurred warm-toned image on its screen, connected by a pink USB cable A screenshot from the video, As Above So Below. The image shows Google Earth over Berlin, with an overlaid line of the boundaries of the former West Berlin. The onscreen subtitle reads, Without seeing its shape there is no faster way to find the right one than to go through the infinite search space of all possible puzzle piececs and try them one by one Multiple silver boxes labelled Prompt Baby by Sarah Friend stacked in a display, lit from above by a glowing sculpture made of overlapping white LED ring lights mounted behind them Inside a glowing box, rests a small key shaped object. It is the same shape and size as a Mercedes Benz key, but is has a small screen that displays the logo of the hardware wallet Tresor A wall-mounted sculpture of densely interwoven grey ethernet cables with blue connectors, forming a tight knotted rectangular mass against a white gallery wall A performer in a white oversized shirt and red heeled shoes stands in a darkened room beside a large projected Instagram post from @artistsmodel showing a classical marble sculpture of two figures, one standing and one kneeling A close-up of a single silver box labelled Prompt Baby by Sarah Friend on a white surface, the box art showing an AI-generated domestic interior scene with furniture and soft shadows Two phone-sized mirrored metallic cards mounted on black adjustable stands against a grey wall, each displaying printed alt-text descriptions of famous photojournalism images. The left reads about a woman kneeling and wailing beside a person lying on the ground, the right about children running on a road with soldiers in the background. A sculpture on a wall-mounted shelf: a smartphone displaying a screaming face with glowing red eyes is clamped to a silver laboratory retort stand, with a white organic sculptural form resembling a tooth or horn attached below, connected by a trailing pink USB cable An art gallery with white walls and bright lights. On one side is hanging a work that appears like a poker table, with mounted playing cards and green felt background, and on the other side a number of off cell phones are mounted to the wall. Two lifeform sculptures sit on a shelf in front of a pink gradient wallpaper. Hung above them are two printed A4 contracts. Only the title of the contracts is readable, it is Lifeforms Temporary Adoption/Foster Agreement The sculpture, Gate, by artist Sarah Friend. It consists of two server racks side by side, one is full of glowing red LED computer fans and the other is full of glowing blue ones A close up of several ipads on a shelf showing training artifacts from Perverse Affordances by Sarah Friend. The image has a very short depth of field, so only the first screen is clear. The video is pixelated and resembles a social media site with a blue header bar Two off cell phones from Sarah Friend's project Off mounted to a white wall beside a sculpture from Billy Rennekamp's Clovers project A wall-mounted sculpture of coiled black cables forming a dense mass within a black rectangular frame, with sharp black metal spikes protruding outward and blue connector clips visible inside In the front of the image are three meme artworks by Marijke De Roover. Beside them is Sarah Friend's work Untitled. The video looks like a screenshot from a popular social media website A large projection of a candlestick chart on a green wall above a monitor that is mostly black, displaying the final stages of the game clickmine A screenshot from Eve and The Interface a short film by Sarah Friend, this one showing a close up item display screen for an old iphone with glowing blue UI elements A person in a black dress stands in a darkened gallery space looking at a large bright wall display showing two Lifeforms, glowing colourful blob-like creatures, each with a description card showing their age in days and a care instruction. To the right is a second screen. A blue sky background covered in a grid of dots in yellow, blue, red, and green A wall-mounted mirror with a wavy black frame and silver bolt fixings at each corner, its reflective surface showing a smeared, distorted reflection of a body A small terrarium sits on a white plinth in an art gallery, it's full of grass and a coin is just barely visible. Behind it on the wall hangs a poster showing a candlestick chart and some infographics A person holds up a menu with a green garland banner and the heading, Menu and world pairings year 2100 A screenshot from Untitled, a video art work, showing a pop up modal that resembles a social media site and an AI-generated selfie of Sarah Friend. The caption under the photo says, That is to say, the body doesn't disappear in cyberspace. It is merely, to different degrees, bracketed, covered over, in cerain of its aspects. Its still there, typing, having emotional reactions, longing, being involved, being mad .. I have written before that the idea of a single unified identity is a gross oversimplification of human social reality; each person has many selves, depending on social relationships and setting. Similarly, many online identities can be real to a person with varying levels of energy and committment devoted to them at different times A close up of the headrest of a gamer chair, with a candlestick graph projected onto it. In the background is an out of focus monitor displaying the game Clickmine created by Sarah Friend A large wallpaper-sized social media interface containing many AI-generated images of Sarah Friend, with a man in the foreground looking at it. The depth of field is shallow, so he's not in focus, only the artwork is A swamplike green background with a grid of neon green dots in front, playing out shapes from Conway's Game of Life A screenshot from the Off website, which is a minimal white interface. Eight works from Off are visible, each of them is solid black and labelled based on a popular monitor, tablet, phone, or other kind of screen Two lifeforms displayed in custom cast silicone cases. The lifeforms are round, pink, and green, and the silicone is translucent with hair embedded inside Sitting on a filing cabinet in an art gallery, Sarah Friend hold a piece of paper up in front of her face. Everything on the paper is redacted Places set for dinner at a wooden table. The centrepiece is mushrooms and foraged flowers and in the background is a swamp bed A photo of the outside of Public Works Administration, during Sarah Friend's solo exhibition. The gallery is brightly lit and down a staircase. Inside you can see a green poker table-like artwork on the wall and a flyer reading, Off:Endgame, hangs in the window An image that looks like a screenshot from instagram stories, showing a body folded up on itself in between two large concrete blocks. The text overlaid says, This body a windowless concrete building, miles of ethernet cable, gpus, right angles, kilowats, benchmarks, checkpoints, steel Two lifeforms displayed in custom cast silicone cases. The lifeforms are round, pink, and green, and the silicone is translucent with hair embedded inside A wall-mounted sculpture made of metal cable housing with two pie charts in front on printed plexiglass. The first has the largest section with a cloud pattern, and the second with the Amazon logo