✰ 𝒲e 𝑅es𝒾st b𝓎 𝒢li𝓉c𝒽cing o𝓊r 𝒜ss𝑒s ✰ 𝓡esistance, 𝓥isibility & 𝓟leasure ✰ *ge𝓃der *re𝓋eal *𝓅arty ✰
𝓣he 𝓒and𝓲d 𝓩one ✰ m𝔂_d𝓲g𝓲tal_Vo𝔂eur𝓲sm
CONTACTS
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ABOUT
Works
𝓱YPER
Research project realised during -1 Residency at Nieuwe Instituut, with -1 Digital Lab department.
In collaboration with artist and drag performer Martyrio.
Sound piece by Aleksandra Nazarova
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Live performance documentation, -1 Digital Lab, Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, 24 April 2026. Featuring @gx_rl, performed by Martyrio.
𝒲e 𝑅es𝒾st b𝓎 𝒢li𝓉c𝒽cing
o𝓊r 𝒜ss𝑒s
Graduation project MA Social Design at Design Academy Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Sound: in collaboration with Aleksandra Nazarova.
2024-25✰✰✰
We Resist by Glitching Our Asses confronts non-consensual p0rn0graphy as a pervasive form of gendered digital violence.
Using the motif of the glitch as resistance to shame, the project challenges the politics of visibility and the silent violence embedded in online environments. It rejects the binary of victim and perpetrator, refusing to flatten or resolve trauma into clean narratives.
The work combines self-scans, textile materialisation, moving images and 3D animation as critical visual strategy inviting viewers into an intimate yet uncomfortable space.
Through speculative storytelling and glitch aesthetics, the work reframes digital sexual violence to confront the smooth interfaces of the apps and platforms that mask sexist narratives as entertainment or ‘sharing’.
Using the motif of the glitch as resistance to shame, the project challenges the politics of visibility and the silent violence embedded in online environments. It rejects the binary of victim and perpetrator, refusing to flatten or resolve trauma into clean narratives.
The work combines self-scans, textile materialisation, moving images and 3D animation as critical visual strategy inviting viewers into an intimate yet uncomfortable space.
Through speculative storytelling and glitch aesthetics, the work reframes digital sexual violence to confront the smooth interfaces of the apps and platforms that mask sexist narratives as entertainment or ‘sharing’.
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We Resist by Glitching Our Asses has been exhibited at Graduation Show 2025 as part of the 25th edition of Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven and at Salon Veneman for the exhibition s€x - statistics - capitalism in June 2026.
photo by Nicole Marnati
models: Costanza Sacher & Aglaé Jarry Wilson
Installation presented at the Graduation Show (Microstad) during Dutch Design Week 2025 in Eindhoven.
✮ To purchase one of my pieces check https://weresistbyglitchingourasses.cargo.site/ ✮
𝓡esistance, 𝓥isibility & 𝓟leasure.
Ref𝓻ami𝓷g 𝓝on-Consens𝓾al 𝓟ornogra𝓹hy 𝓽hrou𝓰h 𝓠ueer Len𝓼es.
Thesis project in the MA’s department of Social Design at Design Academy Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Tutored by Darunee Terdtoontaveedej.
2024-25
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Starting from the dynamics of image-based s3xu4l abu5e of the Telegram case, to patriarchal populism rooted in right-wing narratives –echoing in the rejection of the DDL Zan in 2021–, I draw on Monique Wittig’s theory of the straight mind, which frames cis-heteronormativity as a political regime.
Within this framework, I turn to Legacy Russell’s glitch feminism as an active methodology of refusal and a healing practice, where queer artistic and visual practices become sites of intervention, opening to new narratives against systems of domination.
Building on Wittig’s lesbian theory and Russell’s glitch feminism, I explored the economy of exposure of bodies online: how digital voyeurism raises ethical frictions, blurs the boundaries between private and public, and turns digital bodies into collectable and pocketable sources of consumption.
When digital blueprints of bodies are repeatedly weaponised, reclaiming visibility and exposure on one’s own terms becomes a radical and political act.
2024-25
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Starting from the dynamics of image-based s3xu4l abu5e of the Telegram case, to patriarchal populism rooted in right-wing narratives –echoing in the rejection of the DDL Zan in 2021–, I draw on Monique Wittig’s theory of the straight mind, which frames cis-heteronormativity as a political regime.
Within this framework, I turn to Legacy Russell’s glitch feminism as an active methodology of refusal and a healing practice, where queer artistic and visual practices become sites of intervention, opening to new narratives against systems of domination.
Building on Wittig’s lesbian theory and Russell’s glitch feminism, I explored the economy of exposure of bodies online: how digital voyeurism raises ethical frictions, blurs the boundaries between private and public, and turns digital bodies into collectable and pocketable sources of consumption.
When digital blueprints of bodies are repeatedly weaponised, reclaiming visibility and exposure on one’s own terms becomes a radical and political act.
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Second edition of 8 printed copies
© otti Ferraris 2025
✮ To request a 𝒹igital or a 𝓅hisical copy fill this form ✮
*ge𝓃der *re𝓋eal *𝓅arty
Performance and installation envisioned, conceptualized, designed and performed with Andreas Berzdorf and Guillermo Cárdenas; in collaboration with Cakethingzzz.
2024
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A performance that serves up a critical take on gender reveal rituals.
Slicing through a curated menu of symbolic and edible cakes, it exposes the ties between Western gender construction and the systemic violence against trans* people and those who do not conform to the binary.
The menu unfolds as a sequence of 4 courses, more or less digestable:
First, comes the CONSTRUCT CAKE, a creation that materially represents the unyielding gender binary within Western culture. It’s a stark reminder of the societal construction of gender, served with a side of critical thought.
Then, the FEED ME, LIKE ME a virtual cake that questions how "sharenting"—the practice of parents sharing their child's life online—extends the binary gender narrative into the digital world, assigning an identity even before the child takes their first breath. Here, you are invited to consider the aftertaste of these online overshares and their role in shaping a future identity.
The tasting continues with the ULTRASOUND JELLO, an edible treat that stirs up the medicalised approach to gender, and how medical practices set the stage for binary thinking, often without questioning the ingredients.
For the final course we propose the CIS-TEMIC BABYCAKE, created in collaboration with Cakethingzzz. The cake offers a dense critique of the social, political, and economic structures that marginalise those who fall outside the norm.
Food for thoughts.
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*gender *reveal *party has been exhibited and performed in Eindhoven at Koelhuis in and at United Cowboys during DDW 2024.
Snapshot of the performace at United Cowboys ART House.
Live decontruction of the CONSTRUCTED CAKE.
Snapshot of the performace at United Cowboys, serving ULTRASOUND JELLO
FInal course and tasting of the CIS-TEMIC BABYCAKE, realized in collaboration with @cakethingzzz
m𝔂_d𝓲g𝓲tal_Vo𝔂eur𝓲sm
A four-channel projection simulating hidden digital gazes, realised within the first-year program of the MA in Social Design at DAE, with the guidance of Pete Fung and Merve Bedir.
2024
2024
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This multi-video installation explores the power dynamics of digital surveillance through an auto-ethnographic lens, focusing on the gendered and sexualized nature of the digital gaze. Drawing from research on non-consensual image sharing, the work questions how agency and self-representation are easily stripped away in digital environments.
The installation features 4 video projections that mimic the aesthetics of hidden cameras and surveillance footage, evoking the discomfort of being watched and the loss of control over one’s image. Working with projection mapping and varying projection dimensions, the work immerses the viewer in a fragmented, over-exposed digital presence—highlighting the tension between visibility, consent, and exposure.
The installation features 4 video projections that mimic the aesthetics of hidden cameras and surveillance footage, evoking the discomfort of being watched and the loss of control over one’s image. Working with projection mapping and varying projection dimensions, the work immerses the viewer in a fragmented, over-exposed digital presence—highlighting the tension between visibility, consent, and exposure.
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𝓣he 𝓒and𝓲d 𝓩one
Research-based project realised with the Studio Ecologies of Technology with the guidance of Connor Cook, Nicholas Korody and Ginevra Petrozzi.
2023
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The Candid Zone is a research-based project that confronts upskirting —a violation where non-consensual images of women or female-presenting bodies are captured and shared online. Uncovering uprkiting practices makes us question the displacement of male gaze through digital eyes that record and remember, archive in secret uphold power, reinforcing the subcultural foundations of Red Pill misogyny.
Developed as a speculative scenario, The Candid Zone proposes a different narrative of this abuse by accelerating the intentionality of exposure. A fictional cam girl flips the power dynamic, turning vulnerability into strength, reclaiming agency over her body and transforming what is taken without consent into a profitable business opportunity.
The research starts from questioning the cultural obsession on intimate parts embedded in the heteronormative gaze, treated as a universal metric of categorisation. This fixation often materialises as misogynistic acts like upskirting, pushing sexual harassment into the digital sphere and spawning platforms built on secrecy, shame, and control.
Matetrialised as a performative installation, the project wants to critique hyper-sexualization, misogyny, and the urgent need for societal and legal reform.
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otti Ferraris is a designer and visual artist whose research-led practice focuses on non-consensual image circulation and forms of online exposure, examining how technologies of looking construct and regulate intimacy, gender, and desire. Approaching these dynamics through a queer lens, they develop alternative narratives of digital embodiment that challenge dominant regimes of visibility and address questions of gendered digital violence and consent online.
⊹ academic
2023–25
MA Social Design
Design Academy Eindhoven
Eindhoven, NL
2019–23
BA Product Design
Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti
Milan, IT
2016–19
BA Psychological Sciences and Techniques
Università degli Studi di Torino
Turin, IT
⊹ exhibitions & presentations
DEMO, -1 Digital Lab, Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, July 2026
s€x - statistics - capitalism, Salon Veneman, Eindhoven, June 2026
The Other AI Symposium, hosted by -1 Digital Lab, Nieuwe Instituut, in collaboration with V2_Lab for Unstable Media and UvA Rotterdam, 9 May 2026
DAE Graduation Show, Dutch Design Week, Microstad, Eindhoven, NL, 2025
*gender *reveal *party, United Cowboys, Eindhoven, Dutch Design Week, October 2024
Group exhibition: Around these tables, Koelhuis, Eindhoven, April 2024
⊹ residencies
-1 Residency, -1 Digital Lab, Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, Feb - Jun 2026
⊹ lectures
“Becoming hYPER-VISIBLE: Upskirting, Drag & Voluntary Surveillance as Self-Agency,
The Other AI Symposium”, Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, 9 May 2026
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