AXTION CAPTAIN is a playable arcade cabinet outfitted with the visible apparatus of modern data extraction: cameras, biometric scanners, personality questionnaires, and real-time database lookups.
The juxtaposition is the point. Every mobile game and social platform performs these same operations — we just can't see the wires. The cabinet makes the transaction physical: cameras mounted, questions interrupting gameplay, data value calculated and displayed. It's a diagram of what we've already agreed to in exchange for entertainment.
At Ellie Mayer Gallery in Los Angeles, you sit down. You play. You are processed.
When a Subject plays in Los Angeles, their dossier — photo, psychographic profile, phone lookup data, estimated data value — transmits 2,000 miles to Chicago. It prints at the Del Morocco Field Office inside Marz Brewing. Strangers wearing Field Agent badges pick it up, study a face they'll never meet, and render judgment.
The verdict travels back instantly. The LA Subject watches their rating appear on-screen — delivered by people in a bar they've never been to, operating on criteria they'll never know.