Co-curated this public art installation by Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer.
This site-specific artwork involved hundreds of video portraits being projected onto the pavement, appearing within the shadow of pedestrians as they passed through Trafalgar Square.
In the weeks leading up to the installation, members of the public were invited to participate by contributing their video portrait at Tate Modern.
Partners: Tate Modern, The National Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London’s Science Museum and Haunch of Venison.
Trafalgar Square, London 2008
Commissioned a new work by Heath Bunting.
Bunting’s work adopts the behavioural tropes of a prankster, while examining disruption and agency within politically charged social constructs.
Examining notions of privacy and mobility within bureaucratic and consumer systems, The Status Project involved the artist producing a set of maps illustrating the hidden inter-connectedness of the databases and bots that relentlessly track our online behaviour to construct an impression of our identity and affiliations. The work was realised as a set of prints, a wallet of fictitious, yet legally authenticated identity documents and a psycho-geographic walk of the city.
Tate Britain, London 2008
Commissioned an episodic film series, written and directed by artist and theorist Mark America with an original soundtrack by sound artist Chad Mossholder.
Shot entirely on mobile phone, the story of Immobilité revolves around three characters existing, as if they were in the future looking back.
Reflecting critically on the fluidity of self within digital culture, the films mix personal narrative with philosophical inquiry and cyberpunk fiction to investigate the emergence of digitally constructed identities within collaborative social networks.
Tate Britain, London and Tate Online 2008