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A RESEARCH COLLECTIVE WORKING AT THE INTERFACE BETWEEN CONTEMPORARY ART, RESEARCH AND HACKING. THEIR ARTISTIC PROVOCATIONS SEEK TO EMPOWER POST GROWTH IMAGINARIES AND PRACTICES WHILE CHALLENGING THE WIDESPREAD FAITH THAT ‘ECONOMIC GROWTH’ AND ‘TECHNOLOGICAL FIXES’ WILL SOLVE THE ECOSYSTEMIC DISRUPTIONS THEY PRODUCED IN THE FIRST PLACE.



LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEM
 ECOSYSTEM SERVICES ESTIMATION EXPERIMENT
INSTALLATION, 1M2 OF AUTOMATED CULTIVATION, LED GROW LIGHTS, CAMERA, STREAMING | 2020



POST GROWTH PROTOTYPES
 A SERIES OF VIDEO ESSAYS WHICH PUTS ECOLOGICAL ECONOMIC MODELS TO WORK
CGI VIDEOS, INSTALLATION | 2021



POST GROWTH TOOLKIT - THE INTERVIEWS
 INTERVIEWS ON THE FRICTIONS BETWEEN ECONOMIC GROWTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CRISES
SERIES OF VIDEO INTERVIEWS, VIDEO INSTALLATION, 2020...



POST GROWTH TOOLKIT - THE GAME
 A GAME TO REPROGRAM OURSELVES OUT OF THE ECONOMIC GROWTH ORTHODOXY
CRITICAL GAMES, POSTERS, INSTALLATION, 2020...



ENERGY SLAVE TOKENS
 HUMAN LABOR TO FOSSIL FUEL CONVERSION UNITS
SERIES OF 5 STANDARD WEIGHTS, 3D FILES, POSTER, VIDEO | 2020



SHADOW GROWTH (THE VAST OBSCURITY BENEATH THE UPWARDS ARROW)
 ECONOMIC GROWTH VS. THE RESULTING SOCIAL COST OF CO2 EMISSIONS
INSTALLATION, DIAGRAMS, SOFTWARE, ESSAY | 2021-



A BESTIARY OF THE ANTHROPOCENE (EXHIBITION)
 AN ILLUSTRATED ATLAS OF HYBRID PLANTS, ANIMALS, MINERALS, FUNGI, AND OTHER SPECIMENS
MIXED MEDIA INSTALLATION | 2021



A BESTIARY OF THE ANTHROPOCENE (PUBLICATION)
 AN ILLUSTRATED ATLAS OF HYBRID PLANTS, ANIMALS, MINERALS, FUNGI, AND OTHER SPECIMENS
BOOK, PUBLISHED BY ONOMATOPEE | 2021



PREDICTIVE ART BOT
 A BOT TURNING LATEST MEDIA INFLUENCES INTO ARTISTIC CONCEPTS
NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING, WEBSITE, INSTALLATION | 2015–2017



PROFILING THE PROFILERS
 SOUSVEILLANCE OF BIG TECH COMPANIES USING THEIR OWN TOOLS
BIG DATA ANALYTICS, WEBSITE, INSTALLATION | 2018–2020



ONLINE CULTURE WARS
 A CARTOGRAPHY OF ONLINE CULTURE WARS IN THE FORM OF A POLITICAL COMPASS MEME
POSTER STACK, WALLPAPER MURAL | 2018-2019



THE PERSUADABLES
 A VIDEO EXPOSING PRACTICES USED FOR ONLINE INFLUENCE, PERSUASION AND MANIPULATION
VIDEO | 2019



SHANZHAI ARCHEOLOGY
 A COLLECTION OF HYBRID PHONES FROM THE TECHNOLOGICAL INTERBREEDINGS MADE IN CHINA
INSTALLATION, COLLECTION, RESEARCH, EDITION | 2015-2018



THE MUSEUM OF FAILURES
 AN ALTERNATIVE MUSEUM FOCUSING ON THE DARK NARRATIVES OF TECHNOLOGY
WORKSHOPS, PERFORMANCES, DATABASE | 2016-2018...



BLACKLISTS
 AN EXTENSIVE DIRECTORY OF INTERNET CENSORSHIP AND CONTENT RESTRICTIONS
PUBLICATION, INSTALLATION | 2016



THE PIRATE CINEMA
 A CINEMATIC COLLAGE GENERATED BY PEER-TO-PEER FILESHARING
INSTALLATION, LIVE PERFORMANCE | 2012–2014



THE PIRATE BOOK
 A COMPILATION OF GRASS-ROOT STORIES AND STRATEGIES ON MEDIA PIRACY
PUBLICATION | 2015



FLOATING PROPHECIES
 CORRELATIONS BETWEEN HISTORICAL SCI-FI QUOTES AND FOLK VIDEOS STAGING DRONES
VIDEO COLLAGE, INSTALLATION | 2015



DRONE-2000
 A DYSTOPIAN PERFORMANCE FOR AUTONOMOUS DRONES
LIVE PERFORMANCE | 2014



WAR ZONE
 REPRODUCTION OF HISTORICAL MISSILE TRAJECTORIES WITHIN GOOGLE EARTH
KML TRAJECTORIES, VIDEO | 2013–2014



ARTIFICIAL VOYAGER
 THE VOYAGER GOLDEN RECORDS ANALYSED BY AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
MACHINE LEARNING, TSNE, LIVE PERFORMANCE | 2016...