Video, 137 min, dimension variable. A slideshow of 10.000 photos appropriated from unaware random people’s personal computers. Technically, the act of obtaining the images did not involve any hacking but took advantage of a software glitch.
Installed at HEK, Basel 2012
The projection is wrongly positioned and wrongly shaped, “as if my mom had set it up”
Installed at Abrons Arts Center, New York 2015
Installed at Mata, Modena 2016
Installed at Random Institute, Zurich 2015
Installed at Diputación Provincial de Huesca, Spain 2014
Installed at Arnolfini, Bristol 2013
Installed at The New School 2013
The photos were most likely not meant to be public, but we will never know for sure. The project intentionally ventures into legal and ethical grey zones and tests boundaries of the public and private, as well as the distribution and perception of personal images.
Installed at Carroll/Fletcher, London 2011
Installed at Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck 2015
