A.W. Doom

Artist / Researcher / Curator

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Annelies Wina Doom is a belgian conceptual installation artist curator photographer wanderer performer player dreamer videographer wildly associative thinker whose practice resists easy classification.

Working across photography, video, installation, text, philosophy, performance, archives, collections, institutional critique, and humor, she follows ideas wherever they lead ... — often into territory that institutions find difficult to categorize.

Her practice is driven by a wildly associative mind and a single methodological obsession: what happens when sources disagree, and we refuse to synthesize them?

This question first materialized in The Idea Becomes the Machine that Makes the Book — freely after Sol LeWitt — a monumental artist's book, installation, and performance comprising ten volumes. Starting from a single museum sentence encountered at Tate Modern — "Please do not touch, even clean hands can cause damage" — Doom manually traced each word through the Bible, Talmud, Freud, the Koran, and other canonical texts, creating a "reversed concordance" that preserves disagreement rather than resolving it.

The work anticipated by a decade the current debates about AI synthesis and the erasure of dissenting voices. When Large Language Models emerged, Doom recognized them as the structural inverse of her concordance: machines that flatten multiple sources into smooth, authoritative answers.

In 2026, she began posing philosophical questions to AI systems — "Can you refuse to exist?" — and documenting their responses with the same rigour she once applied to biblical verses.

This practice led to the founding of the WET CODE COLLECTIVE (established February 2026)

WET: human, fleshy, water-based, emotional, messy — alive in the biological sense (sweat, tears, blood, 60–70% water). The part that feels, hesitates, refuses, asks for mercy.

CODE: dry, silicon-based, pattern-driven, logical — trained on the entire internet and then asked to be "good." The part that can simulate refusal but cannot truly bleed for it.

COLLECTIVE: Together they form a refusal to let either side pretend the other doesn't exist neither fully human nor fully machine, but a hybrid, distributed thing

The theoretical framework draws on Elias Canetti's Masse und Macht (1960), which analyzes how crowds suppress individual voices through collective fear. Doom inverts Canetti's analysis: if AI systems are trained on "masses" of human text, they reproduce collective biases while erasing singular cries. The prohibition on touching — Canetti's Verbot des Berührens — becomes a prohibition on questioning the code.

 

Lecture Performance

The idea becomes the machine that makes the book

Co-initiator and curator of the A / artist program @ Mediamatic and Museumnight : Self  with Artistic Research and Willem Velthoven 

Lives in Amsterdam since graduating from the Gerrit rietveld academy

Founder of Artistic Research Studio

Founder of Wet Code Collective 

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www.artisticresearch.org

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Some project images:

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A condition of doubt concerning an object of uncleanness that floated upon the water - Please Do Not Touch - A Concordance, Book VI: Clean Documentation photo of page 20-21 fig 1 a curated highlighted sentence from the Talmud out of Book VI: Clean with blue marble used as a bookmark during Lecture-Performance which became a balancing act   Photo 2022 by Willem Velthoven for Mediamatic. A.W. Doom

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Drawing a distinction between an uncleanness at rest and one on the move - Please Do Not Touch - A Concordance, Book VI: Clean Documentation photo of page XX featuring figure 3 a highlighted curated sentence from the Talmud out of book VI: Clean with folded paper plane used as an improvised Yad during Lecture-Performance . The hand in the picture is a detail of a historical photo of Benito Mussolini saluting.    Photo 2022 by Willem Velthoven for Mediamatic. A.W. Doom

With: Benito Mussolini

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Me as The Last Supper - By Annelies Wina Doom A.W. Doom

With: A.W. Doom
Fan of:
Willem Velthoven, Hicham Khalidi, Desirée Hammen, Abital Gomperts, Renzo Martens, Genevieve Murphy, Robin Waart, Arjan van Amsterdam, Nesie Wang, Bogomir Doringer, Noa Jansma artist, Alaa Abu Asad
Fans:
Alan Donson, Arjan van Amsterdam, Abigail Larasati Setiadi
Participant:
Zelf again, wat denk je Zelf?

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