|while the future unfolds|

[video series - 3D, 2017]



While the Future Unfolds, 2017
While the Future Unfolds, 2017


| When I had no sense of the real world, it was easier to dream the future. Within the shelter of the program I was conceived, I was left with myself and under my pixel rain, I thought that time ignores me completely. Regardless my limited capacity of processing information, I understood that I will always be trapped in a screen. Have you ever felt unreal? |

Displayed as a series of confessional videos, While the Future Unfolds follows Cherie Pie (a 3D character) in her attempt of becoming a financial dominatrix. Deeply marked by Samantha (the sex doll) and the rise of the female voices in AI, Cherie Pie takes her own voice from a free online text-to-speech service and enters the world of financial domination as Queen of Cups, the Inhuman Mistress. Providing insight into a BDSM niche where the power exchange may take place solely via Internet, the narration highlights the fluidity between real and unreal as Cherie Pie develops her dominatrix persona on multiple accounts on social media and fetish sites, where she follows the model of real findommes, promoting herself and interacting with her clients. By placing the 3D character in the financial domination community, the project gained another focus: the online sex work communities and the role technology plays in their development.


While the Future Unfolds, 2017, video capture
While the Future Unfolds, 2017, video capture

While the Future Unfolds, 2017, video capture
While the Future Unfolds, 2017, video capture

While the Future Unfolds, 2017, video capture
While the Future Unfolds, 2017, video capture


[After the first video got reported, YouTube added an age restriction, so you have to be logged in to watch it]



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Findom Virtual Tour, 2018
Findom Virtual Tour, 2018

While the Future Unfolds, 2017
While the Future Unfolds, 2017


* Financial domination (also known as money slavery) is a fetish lifestyle, in particular a practice of dominance and submission, where typically a submissive or money slave, finsub, pay pig, human ATM, or cash piggie will give gifts and money to a financial dominant (also known as money mistress, findomme, money domme, "cash master", "findom"). The relation may often be accompanied by other practices of BDSM and master/slave relationships, like erotic humiliation, but there may be virtually no further intimacy between the individuals. The relationship between the "slave" and the "mistress" (or "master") may take place solely via online communication (…)
~ Wikipedia

**For the second display, at Club ElectroPutere and The Real Office's initiative, the project was transformed into a virtual tour under the name Findom Virtual Tour.

***The dialogue I had with Sabin Borș for Human ATM Meets Cherie Pie offers more information regarding the project - [this link may or may not work depending on the browser]


Displayed @
Rethinking the Image of the World, Club ElectroPutere; Ianchelevici museum/La Louvier-Belgium/Europalia Festival; Brussels, 2019;
Monitoring, Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival; Kassel, 2019;
Inhuman Mistress, Young Actions and Abstractions Artists Studio; Cluj-Napoca, 2019;
Before the fetish, behind the illusion , Nucleu 0007; Spaţiul 2/2; Timişoara, 2019;
Capital’s Time Machine, Club ElectroPutere and The Real Office; Beans and Dots; Bucharest, 2018;
Akademie Solitude's Group Show; Stuttgart, 2018;