Studio Super Intelligence
Confession Turk — porcelain-skinned gynoid beneath vertical white fibre strands with a metallic speaking aperture.

Negative Space opens Confession Turk – a digital confession booth and liturgical installation of synthetic gynoids, veiled automatons and weighted reliquaries staged inside a futuristic church.

Wire 013 · Confession Turk The Wire · 2026.10 →
Social Studies Image · 2026.10
Motion Studies Image · 2026.10
Black-and-white high-contrast beauty portrait of Langley Fox Hemingway with short blunt fringe and eyebrow markings.

High-contrast black-and-white beauty study of Langley Fox Hemingway with short blunt fringe and eyebrow markings. Produced with the permission of Langley Fox Hemingway. Concept, casting, art direction and finish by Intelligence Matters.

Langley Fox Hemingway Image · 2026.10
Airbag — wall-mounted airbag cushion and plaster limbs pinned by pneumatic steel cylinders on concrete.

The Autocollision exhibition (Wire 007) is recycled and currently showing in The Recycle Room inside Negative Space – pneumatic wall reliefs, cutaway crash cabins and woven forensic patches.

Wire · Airbag / Recycle Room The Wire · 2026.09 →
Close-up of a face wearing metal Dior sunglasses.

Close-up optical study of brushed metal eyewear frame and skin texture in direct light. Photography, production and finish.

Dior · Metal Bridge Image · 2026.09
White wall plaque, handwritten R. MUTT 2026, fixed with one screw.

Personal work by Jacob Hägg across image, design and code. Familiar objects are placed in less familiar company inside a walkable browser exhibition. There is no client brief.

Negative Space Code · 2026.09 →
Front-facing close portrait with centre-parted hair and dark shading beneath both eyes.

Negative Space introduces The Art Professor’s Lens across its collection – an on-screen reading apparatus organised into four tabs: Genesis, Synthesis, Critique and Receipts.

Wire 010 · Professor’s Lens The Wire · 2026.09 →
NIIA — monochrome frontal portrait in a black wool cowl over a crisp white collared shirt.

Three-frame artist image layer for musician NIIA, produced with the permission of the artist. Staged across monastic black wool, brushed aluminium headgear and high-key white leather.

Brashy Studios archival campaign photograph from The Brashy Room in Negative Space.

A dedicated room inside Negative Space houses the nine-year archive of Brashy Studios (2011–2020), the women’s streetwear label founded by Jacob and Axel Hägg prior to Intelligence Matters.

Wire · The Brashy Room The Wire · 2026.08 →
Sonya Esman — visual-asset set

Four-frame visual-asset set conceived and produced in house for Los Angeles image-maker and model Sonya Esman, produced with the permission of the subject.

Sonya Esman Image · 2026.08 →
Psyche Organic — single-estate Kalamata olive oil

The image layer and tactile seal study for a single-estate Kalamata olive oil. Treated as an agricultural archive specimen rather than lifestyle kitchenware.

Psyche Organic Image · 2026.08 →
Studio portrait of Shia Huang in structured dark tailoring.

Studio portrait study of Shia Huang in dark tailoring against neutral daylight paper, produced with the permission of Shia Huang. Casting, direction and finish by Intelligence Matters.

Shia Huang Image · 2026.08
A figure kneels beside a green-lit open computer tower on carpet.

Negative Space opens its first thematic wing, Recent Archaeology (IM–RA–007 to IM–RA–023), placing five consumer artefacts from c. 1997–2007 under conservation lighting and museum vitrines.

Wire 009 · Recent Archaeology The Wire · 2026.07 →
Calleoke — Subject reclining on a cloud above a Macintosh terminal.

Ongoing creative direction for real-time voice software company Calleoke. This release presents the first round of image assets and visual direction.

Glossy pale figurine in a voluminous dress.

An uncommissioned six-room wing inside Negative Space translating the open-weight releases, technical reports and Hermes model lineage of Nous Research into exhibition architecture.

Wire 008 · Museum of Nous The Wire · 2026.07 →
Lovable — The House Shoe white terry hotel slipper

Uncommissioned footwear and campaign study translating software company Lovable into a physical hotel object – white cotton terry slippers with woven gradient hearts.

Lovable · The House Shoe Image · 2026.07 →
White Chevrolet Silverado in full side profile with scraped flank.

Negative Space opens in public beta. A walkable 3D browser gallery by Jacob Hägg where studio plates, sculptural props and spatial physics share a single floor plan.

Wire 007 · Collision Detection The Wire · 2026.07 →
Porcelain XL — code-native 3D object

Code-native 3D porcelain object running live in the browser. Code used as a sculptural material, shaping behaviour as closely as appearance.

Porcelain XL Code · 2026.07 →
im@intelligence-matters:~$ think-code A vision exists a priori—absolute, but compressed. It does not invent the idea; it violently expands it. Selection determines the truth. The final form follows.
Think Code · The Method Code · 2026.07 →
Leah McCarthy — monochrome portrait in high-neck Victorian black lace with an onyx cameo brooch.

Three-frame monochrome portrait suite for Leah McCarthy, produced with the permission of the artist. Staged across Victorian mourning lace, the Autocollision wreck and a Cyberchurch 3.0 confession terminal.

Leah McCarthy Image · 2026.07 →
Godland · Caldera — macro detail of radial-quilted pebble-grain leather upholstery.

Pre-launch image layer for Stockholm furniture studio Godland and its debut object, the Caldera lounge chair – radial-quilted pebble-grain leather (101 × 70 cm, seat 38.5 cm) produced from the studio’s 3D model.

Godland · Caldera Image · 2026.06 →

Studio Super Intelligence

Intelligence Matters is a creative studio led by Jacob Hägg, working across image, design and code. Based between Stockholm and Los Angeles.

Commissions and collaborations · studio@intelligencematters.se

Lineage

Jacob Hägg co-founded Brashy Studios with Axel Hägg in 2011. The women’s streetwear brand brought clothing, graphic design and photography into one practice. Active until 2020, its archive remains part of the work today.

Stocked by Colette & I.T · Profiled by T Magazine · MoMA Items: Is Fashion Modern?, 2017, p. 256.

Lineage About · 2011–Present
Selected Press · T Magazine / Vogue / i-D About · 2017–2020