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I wanted to make an artwork that really underlined the contradiction between how machines see and how humans see. Because music is so affective and is just as corporeal as it is cerebral, I thought coupling a music performance with machine vision adds up to something that work on an emotional, aesthetic, and intellectual level.

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What would the infrastructure of the Internet look like if mass surveillance wasn't its business model?

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What started happening really quickly after 9/11 and the construction of this 'War on Terror' business is that I saw all kinds of parallels between the way that was being constructed and the way that prisons had been constructed since the early 1980s.

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Show me what society that ever existed that did not use the tools that they had available. Ask any person from East Germany... you will never hear somebody say, 'The Stasi never bothered me because I didn't have anything to hide.' That's not a thing that people say.

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Injustice drives me crazy!

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It's not okay for me to behave as if I'm cynical about the future. Even if I am.

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I think that one of the most important things that art can do is give you a reason to look at something, almost give you permission to look at something.

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American intelligence and military agencies have a huge footprint in terms of how the world works, but they're largely invisible. I'm interested in exploring those 'geographies' of secrecy from many different angles: political, legal, economic, spatial, etc., because I am fundamentally just interested in how the world works and how societies work.

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Photographs don't 'reveal' much at all but instead help us generate a kind of visual vocabulary that we can use to make sense of the world and direct our attention to certain things around us. In other words, they help us learn how to see.

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Seeing various aspects of the secret state and surveillance state echoes a long tradition in art of looking at the sublime.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Artist

Born: Unknown

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