RECEIPTS | Sonár+D | Barcelona 2026

RECEIPTS is an interactive installation presented as part of the 2026 edition of Sonár+D in Barcelona, Spain. The piece confronts the public with the deliberate barriers posed by the Terms & Conditions of many commonly used services and applications. Too spread out to locate, too complex to understand, and too long to read once gathered together in this installation, it becomes glaringly clear that they are designed to obscure power. As such, clicking “I agree” cannot be true consent. Consent requires understanding, legibility, and intentional acquiescence.

The nest of paper makes the scale of what needs to be understood unavoidable. The screen surfaces the most alarming clauses. Together, they sketch the contours of what a truly transparent internet might demand: contracts we can actually read, terms we can actually comprehend, choices we can actually make.

Clicking “I agree” cannot be true consent. Consent requires understanding, legibility, and intentional acquiescence.

The computers we rely on and the internet we’re tethered to were never meant to be safe. Their origins are utilitarian: tools for targeting weapons, automating labor, and serving corporations. The infrastructure was built for surveillance and control. Home computers and the Web promised empowerment, but they also normalized tracking in every interaction and surveillance as the price of participation. The internet has never been a safe space by design. Using it for care, community, or solidarity has always been a glitch in the system.

Running through the work as both reference and counterpoint is Glitch Armour, a speculative project imagining a world where people store data locally, control what is shared, and move through digital space without being extracted from. Where RECEIPTS exposes, Glitch Armour proposes, not through withdrawal, but through awareness and a refusal to accept extraction as inevitable.

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