háček is a physical audio-visual installation with a VR component and printed data maps. Drawing on live network-traffic logs—hackers bombarding the Shmoo Group website with DDoS attacks, port scans, and malware—the work transforms cybersecurity skirmishes into an immersive meditation on networked landscapes, security, and wayfinding. Automated defenses repel bots and exploits, their struggle abstracted into metaphorical visuals rather than literal charts or conventional VR gameplay.

Commissioned by the Shmoo Group and O’Reilly Media, Háček was created with the help of Stony Brook University students and Arts.Codes collaborators. It premiered at the Javits Center and later showed at Knockdown Center and the Simons Center for Geometry and Physics.

Capture of the VR audio-visual experience projected onto sculpted fly screen at Simons Center Gallery.

Capture from the VR experience.

Working with the data in Unity, which became the printed visualizations as well as the basis for the VR.