COMMUNITY GUIDELINES by Maren Dagny Juell

Images below of Installation specially created to be experienced throughout the night in a public space in Oslo, in a purpose-built structure commissioned by the Oslo City Council through the Agency for Cultural Affairs.The installation consists of an 85” TV, outdoor speakers, nine ceramic objects, a carpet, and three thin mattresses with UV ghost prints of the same shapes. Heat foil and a foiled side panel display information and a QR code leading to the AR work

Community Guidelines, film, 15:54 min, 4K, 2026
Empathy Objects, augmented reality (AR) work with audio and haptics, 01:45 min, Meadow app, 2025

Community Guidelines is a 15-minute short film set in a near future where images are heavily censored, and visual information is no longer considered trustworthy. In this society, a talk show serves as entertainment for a privileged population, and the film follows an interview between the host and the evening’s guest, a former content cleaner who once censored violent and traumatic imagery.

The guest describes the psychological consequences of her work and a strange phenomenon: abstract objects she dreams about begin to materialize in reality, affecting people emotionally despite being seemingly meaningless fragments. Throughout the interview, a growing sense of unease emerges—connected both to the guest’s concealed identity and the talk show’s surface-level lightness. The film invites doubt about whether the guest is even human at all, questioning empathy in a time when AI is increasingly taking over the task of filtering the world’s suffering.

The talk-show format acts as a familiar entry point into a dystopian scenario where spectacle overshadows humanity. Blending humor, vulnerability, and sci-fi elements, the film explore how technology shapes empathy, autonomy, and our ability to confront the pain of others.