System Acknowledged

Zixin Mou (CN)

Currently a master’s student at Politecnico di Milano, with an exchange term at the University of Arts Linz.  Her practice navigates the intersection of interaction design and critical art within interdisciplinary contexts.  Trained in industrial design, she emphasizes structural clarity, restraint, and an industrial sensibility in her installations.  Her work explores the construction and erasure of female voices and cultural identities in artistic expression.  She seeks to articulate complex contexts through minimal forms, believing that art can extend beyond aesthetic conventions to reach broader audiences.

How a fair, neutral system quietly erases women’s voices.

Simulating a patriarchal, multilayered voice-filtering system, this work reveals how rejection is rationalized through language, procedures, and the illusion of fairness. The audience is invited to participate and experience the erasure of expression under structural oppression: how women’s voices are filtered through rules and technical discourse in a system that appears neutral, fair, and well-structured. Witness how an oppressive structure justifies itself—quietly, logically, and systematically.