Lucia Nijdam
Artificial Times
Biography
Lucia Nijdam is an artist, writer, and composer based in Amsterdam. Engaging temporality as both structure and experience, she explores how meaning emerges between algorithmic foresight and experiential intuition, tracing the ways we forecast futures and inhabit the present, constructing meaning in the temporal spaces between. Her work takes shape through video, installation, and text.
Orbit
Orbit is a novel that moves through systems of prophecy, speculative thinking, pattern recognition, and foreclosure. Drawing from fields as varied as divination, data analytics, and economic modeling, it traces the architectures built to anticipate futures. The accompanying video extends these themes through the body and through time. It guides the viewer not through plot, but through a series of temporal disjunctions. A lone figure, suspended in a purgatorial space, enacts a set of gestures that construct and dismantle a fragile model economy. These works emerge from within the systems they question. They have lived inside dashboards, forecasts, and feedback loops that promise to manage the future but mostly recode the past. Against this recursive logic, the works search for alternative temporalities: futures sensed not through metrics, but through the body, language, and space - where time slows, is felt, and is reassembled through gesture. To orbit, still, is not to be static - it is to move in relation, without arrival.