In short: Aarhus based artists FatbikeHero (Tendai Frank Tagarira) and Denise Wiersma will film each other with Ray-Ban Meta glasses in a consent-first art experiment that puts the female gaze side by side with the male gaze.
Key facts
- Project: Metaglasses Consent-First Art Experiment, chapter two
- Artists: FatbikeHero (Tendai Frank Tagarira) and Denise Wiersma
- Location: Aarhus, Denmark
- Medium: Instagram Reels filmed only with Ray-Ban Meta glasses
- Focus: mostly the female gaze, set against the male gaze
- Participants: consenting members of the public are occasionally invited to join
- Builds on: Consent-First AI Glasses Experiment v1.0, launched 10 October 2026
- Principles: Spontaneous, Self-Funded, Sovereign, Smiles
The experiment so far
On 10 October 2026, I committed to filming my Instagram Reels only with Ray-Ban Meta glasses, and only with consent. I also invited women who chose to take part to wear my glasses and film me. The question: what changes when we change the person who is looking?
The collaboration
Chapter two turns that question into a dialogue. I’m collaborating with Denise Wiersma, the first artist to join the experiment as a creative partner. We will both wear the glasses and film each other.
Two gazes, one frame
The film theorist Laura Mulvey named the male gaze in her 1975 essay Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. For centuries, visual culture has often shown women through men’s eyes.
This collaboration puts both gazes on record. Most of the work centres on Denise’s gaze: she films me, and I become her subject. Then we swap, and I film her, openly and with her consent. Seen side by side, the same moment through a woman’s eyes and a man’s shows what each of us notices, frames and leaves out.
Neither of us speaks for a whole gender. There is no single female gaze or male gaze. Each of us brings our own.
Who is Denise Wiersma?
Denise Wiersma is a performer, actress, dancer and freelance musician from Patagonia, Argentina, now based in Aarhus.
In 2018 she co-starred in the two-hander Predestinados, directed by Gustavo Lioy, at the Centro Cultural Eduardo Galeano in El Bolsón. She has danced since childhood and creates Cocina Sessions, comic kitchen-dance reels with the motto “Some say kitchen, I say dance floor.” In her own work, she already decides how she is seen.
Who is FatbikeHero?
FatbikeHero is Tendai Frank Tagarira, an award-winning performance artist, author and filmmaker based in Aarhus. He is known for costumed street performance on an electric fatbike, bringing smiles to strangers, and human-made art that questions technology.
Inviting participants
From time to time, we will invite people we meet to spice up the experiment: to wear the glasses, film one of us, or join the frame. Every guest adds another gaze.
Consent rules
- No one is filmed without saying yes.
- Consent to recording is not consent to publication. We ask again before posting.
- The glasses’ recording light is never covered.
- Identifiable bystanders are cropped or blurred where appropriate.
- Children are never published without explicit parental consent.
- Denise and I share authorship and both decide what is published.
The 4 S’s
- Spontaneous: we plan the invitation, not the outcome.
- Self-Funded: no sponsor decides what the art says.
- Sovereign: everyone keeps control of their image and voice.
- Smiles: if it doesn’t make someone smile, it isn’t finished.
What’s next
Expect music, movement and comedy, filmed by Denise, by me and sometimes by people we meet in Aarhus. I will share monthly transparency updates on Instagram Stories so the process stays open to scrutiny.
FAQ
What is the Metaglasses Consent-First Art Experiment?
An ongoing FatbikeHero art project in Aarhus that uses Ray-Ban Meta glasses to explore the gaze, authorship and consent.
What is new in chapter two?
FatbikeHero and Denise Wiersma film each other, comparing the female gaze and the male gaze, and occasionally invite participants.
Is anyone filmed without permission?
No. Everyone must agree before filming and again before publication.
Where can I follow it?
On Instagram at @fatbikehero @denisewiersma and at fatbikehero.com.
I have spent years making people smile. Now two of us are holding the camera, looking back at each other. Let’s see what we see.
Tendai Frank Tagarira (FatbikeHero)
Artist and filmmaker, Aarhus, Denmark
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