2022

Perspex, string, electric candles, casket handles, 5” display, 0.8” display, Raspberry Pi 4, Raspberry Pi Zero 2W

Content warning: Unmonitored live streams of death ceremonies. May have visuals of the deceased and other sensitive content.



A response to ongoing research about death rituals, ceromonies and how death is becoming the most public it has ever been within the 21st century.

For recent locational reasons, funerals and other death ceremonies have been moved online enabling relatives and friends to attend virtually while providing a lucrative opportunity for digital media companies. Privacy and data rights are often not thought about in these situations and the upselling of funeral add ons is more prominent than ever with the introduction of new technologies.



The program within the box scrapes the internet for live death ceremonies in any form, globally that are made public on major streaming websites. The webscrape is performed every 15 minutes in order to update the list and display recently listed ceremonies. Below the main stream is a view counter showing the number of people who are also watching. The program only shows the least viewed ceromonies.