Face Cages
> Zach Blas 2014 – 2016 Courtesy of the artist. Face Cages is a dramatisation of the abstract violence of the biometric diagram. In this installation and performance work, four queer artists, including micha cárdenas, Elle Mehrmand, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, and Zach Blas, generate biometric diagrams of their faces, which are then fabricated as three-dimensional […]
AdNauseam
> Helen Nissenbaum, Daniel C. Howe & Mushon Zer-Aviv 2017 – present Courtesy of the artists. AdNauseam joins a broader class of technical systems that attempt to serve ethical, political, and expressive ends. In light of the industry’s failure to self-regulate or otherwise address the excesses of network tracking, AdNauseam allows individual users to take […]
MacGhillie
> Knowbotic Research 2009 – 2012 Courtesy of the artists. Urban sites are visited by a figure, dressed in a camouflage suit. The figure shows neither the traits of an individual, nor a person. The so-called Ghillie Suit was originally invented in the 19th century for hunting. It was later also used during the First […]