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  • The Big Plot -
    "This is a romantic-spy story rendered into the genre of Recombinant Fiction. Four characters told a fiction using dialogues shown on several media channels. The cloned identity of a real spy was used to portray a story about the political and
  • "This project proposes an alternative financial model based on the Peer-to-Peer architecture for a more equal sharing of wealth in society. It offers an innovative participatory system using counterfeit virtual money. By issuing a visionary and
  • "This artwork unveiled over 200000 Caymans Islands companies and combined with an aggressive business strategy, it reversed global finance machination for creative subversive agendas. The website Loophole4All.com promoted the sale of real identities
  • Cycloramadrome -
    Cycloramadrome is a project in which the spectators can interact with the work in the immersive ambient environment. Exploiting the technology of 360-degree projection developed in the 50s, the artist sets out to utilize aspects of the surrounding
  • Whenever the inequitable distribution of resources crosses into territories once thought impossible, Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) has responded with a public party to highlight the achievements of various oligarchies and plutocracies in a manner that
  • CAE transforms statistical data on global economic inequality into an embodied spatial experience. Using a helicopter, participants are lifted to hover at a height that allows them to visualize the economic separation of the top 1% from the bottom
  • Free Range Grain -
    Free Range Grain was a live, performative action that used basic molecular biology techniques to test for genetically modified (GM) food in the global food trade. CAE wanted this interventionist performance to demonstrate how the "smooth space" of
  • Molecular Invasion -
    Molecular Invasion was a participatory science-theater work done in cooperation with students from the Corcoran School of Art and Design and exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC. In this work, CAE/da Costa/Pentecost and selected
  • This fiction informs the audience about rising sea levels due to global warming and how urban populations will cope with it. This experimental form of tactical transmedia fiction was told by actors and narrative devices staged over the Internet and
  • Homes
    “Homes” is an interactive installation, which shows the exact, detailed virtual copy of the interior of three Tai O fishermen's family houses. The visitor can walk through, look around, and examine details of the interiors by using a simple computer