The code that makes our piece “Personal Photographs” run was written with our amazing collaborator David Huerta. It’s a self-contained network between two Raspberry Pis, which copy images to each other, forever. The code is available here: https://github.com/huertanix/pi2pi
Somewhere in “Data Doubles”, our ongoing exhibition at Team Gallery, “Ceiling Cat” is watching you. This tiny sculpture is a taxidermy cat peeking through a hole in the ceiling, a direct interpretation of the meme “Ceiling Cat”, which surged in popularity from 2006 onwards concomitant with the #lolcat phenomena. The all-seeing feline had many online lives as an internet meme, but here the image assumes a life of its own; a copy of a copy that reifies themes of surveillance and control in a form equal parts cute and creepy. What the sculpture hints at, with disquieting absurdity, is the relationship between source, double, and an emergent third phase whose origin is a thicket of copies.
For “Data Doubles” on view Team Gallery, Los Angeles, we are showing for the fist time “Riccardo Uncut”. In October 2017, we posted an open call online: individuals could apply to sell their entire personal archive of smartphone photos for $1,000. The resulting work is a 87 minutes slideshow comprising some 3,000 images and videos; cumulatively, the photos describe the shift accelerated by the mass diffusion of social media and smartphones that fundamentally changed how images are made, shared, and consumed, and by extension the nature of the images themselves.
“Riccardo Uncut” has been commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art and can be seen in its entirety on the museum’s website.
“Data Doubles” is our ongoing solo exhibition Team Gallery, Los Angeles.
“Personal Photographs, September 2009” (2019) is a network of cable trays around and throughout the exhibition site.
The cable trays represent an infrastructure disposed toward invisibility, made conspicuously present within the domestic site of the bungalow. In navigating real space and contending with pre-existing structures, they mirror the assimilation of the internet’s operations into everyday life.
All the photos we shot in September 2009 – 142 files – are in constant circulation within the cables. Images without viewers, yet always there. Like most images nowadays.
Super excited to open our first solo show in Los Angeles at Team Gallery on Sunday May 12!!!
There are three works in the show: one tiny sculpture, one projected video and one site-specific installation, each of which center around the creation and transmission of images, and the increasing interconnectedness of those two processes.
Photos of the exhibition “Snap + Share: Transmitting Photographs from Mail Art to Social Networks“, that just opened at SFMOMA. Guess what we’re showing?
A few photos of our installation at Berlin’s NGBK Gallery, for the ongoing show “The Influencing Machine”. Our installation was created by customizing pre-owned office desks of the same brand and model used by content moderators at the Facebook’s Berlin moderation center.
Made a new lolcat sculpture inspired by the “What Has Been Seen Cannot Be Unseen” meme. “What Has Been Seen” is a black taxidermy cat, sitting on a microwave containing an erased hard drive (’cause it’s been microwaved).
No Fun, installed on a bed at The Current Museum, New York…
We’re hiring a studio manager, one day a week to start, $400 a month, must be based in NYC, be super organized (Mr Wolf kinda style) and have previous experience. We’d meet a few times and then most of the work will be done remotely. You’ll help organizing exhibitions, shipments, writing, archives, applications and deadlines, deadlines and more deadlines… pls drop us a short email by December, about yourself, what you’re good at, your future plans etc. Thanks!
