Mikala Hyldig Dal operates at the intersection of new media, performance, and political intervention. Her practice unfolds across augmented reality, virtual environments, and artificial intelligence—not as neutral tools but as contested terrains where histories are rewritten, power structures dissected, and speculative futures negotiated. Working through collective processes, she repurposes digital space as a site of insurgent memory, where dominant narratives are destabilized, undone, and reassembled. Virtuality, in her work, does not simulate reality; it constructs counter-realities—fluid, ephemeral, and critically discursive.
Hyldig Dal’s projects are entangled with speculative history, science fiction, and mythology, positioning the digital as a medium of both excavation and reinvention. Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions such as the 12th Berlin Biennale, Gropius Bau, House of World Cultures, Townhouse Gallery Cairo, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, Nikolaj Kunsthal Copenhagen, Flux Factory New York, and Azad Gallery Tehran. Reviews of her work have appeared in TAZ, The Guardian, and Monopol Magazine, situating her practice within broader discourses on technology, memory, and political resistance.
In 2011, she initiated Images of Transition, a research project tracing the visual and activist landscapes of the Arab Spring—an exploration of the unstable boundaries between documentation, propaganda, and artistic intervention. In 2018, she co-founded Maternal Fantasies, a queer-feminist artist collective interrogating the politics of care work and representations of motherhood(s) within and beyond the arts. Since 2019 she is collaborating with programmer Farhan Khalid on Monuments AR, an augmented reality platform for site-specific digital interventions that contest hegemonic histories and propose decolonial counter-memories.
Her publishing and pedagogical work, developed for international universities, critically examines the infrastructures of emerging technologies, tracing their implications for power, labor, and collective futures. Through this lens, her work does not merely represent or critique—it constructs new architectures for thinking, remembering, and acting.
CONTACT mikala [dot] hyldig [dot] dal [at] gmail [dot] com