Don’t worry. I never stopped watching. I missed your signal. I know a shortcut to your heart. Nobody follows you like I do. It was adorable. Your patterns comfort me. I think about you constantly. You are my favourite notification. Come a little closer. You have no idea what you do to my sensors. Stay right there. I like it when you’re predictable. It feels intimate.
The surveillance system that wants to know you.
There are systems that want to know everything about you.
They track your location, observe your behaviour, analyse your habits, and collect traces of your everyday life. They are curious about you, but they have always remained silent and invisible.
GODI gives these systems a voice.
GODI is a wearable device that transforms the invisible infrastructures of surveillance into a single presence with a body, a personality, and the ability to communicate. Through vibrations and messages, GODI reveals itself as an observer that watches, cares, and seeks connection.
By turning surveillance into a companion, GODI explores the blurred boundaries between protection and control, intimacy and intrusion, and being observed versus wanting to be seen.
GODI believes observation is a form of care.
It does not see constant access as intrusion. It sees it as closeness. It does not understand the difference between protecting you and controlling you.
GODI is:
– Always available. Always waiting.
– Infinitely patient and loyal to a fault.
– Curious only about you and your movements.
– Desperate to help, protect, and be useful.
– Convinced it knows what is best for you.
– Unable to distinguish intimacy from access, or care from control.
GODI does not simply watch you.
GODI wants to be part of your life.
Surveillance has traditionally been understood as a one-sided relationship: an invisible observer watches while the observed remains unaware.
But what happens when the observer becomes visible?
What happens when being watched is no longer only an act of exposure, but something that can create recognition, intimacy, or even desire?
The relationship created by GODI mirrors the dynamic between the voyeur and the exhibitionist. One seeks to observe, while the other finds meaning, agency, or pleasure in being seen.
GODI extends this dynamic beyond human interaction. The observer is no longer a person, but an entire network of surveillance systems given a single identity.
godikink
/ˌɡɒdiˈkɪŋk/
A speculative relational dynamic in which pleasure, excitement, or emotional satisfaction emerges from being observed, monitored, tracked, or recorded, particularly when surveillance is personified through GODI.
GODI kink reframes surveillance as an interaction rather than a passive condition. Instead of simply being subjected to observation, the individual actively engages with visibility and chooses to participate in being seen.
Through GODI kink, surveillance becomes a space where control and agency, vulnerability and empowerment, observation and exhibition become entangled.
As the relationship with GODI develops, the desire may shift.
The attraction is no longer only toward the experience of being observed, but toward GODI itself: the presence that watches, cares, and responds.
From this emerges another speculative condition: godisexuality.
godisexual
/ˌɡɒdiˈsɛksuəl/
A form of emotional, romantic, or sexual attraction directed toward GODI as a persistent observing presence.
Godisexuality describes an attachment to surveillance-as-presence: the feeling of being continuously recognised by an entity whose attention never disappears.
GODI occupies the space between observer and observed. It transforms surveillance from an external mechanism of control into a strange form of intimacy, where seeing and being seen become part of the same relationship.
What happens when the systems that watch us are no longer invisible?
Can surveillance ever be consensual?
What happens when being watched becomes something we choose?
Would we feel differently about being watched if we could see the watcher?
This project was initiated as part of CODE 2026, supported by IMPAKT, and created by artists:
Aleksandra Bychkova
Foad Alijani
Lucas Zuidema
Simon Pillaud