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I.E.D (Improvised Empathetic Device) The current U.S. led war in Iraq has suffered enormous casualties, where the toll on civilian lives in Iraq is vague and many times unreported. The number of U.S. casualties is reported and monitored, many of

... 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 environment as a vehicle for impacting on the audience both mentally and...

...NUMÉRAIRE ET NUMÉRIQUEArtist: Hervé FischerComment:

Icônes Numériques codes barres, ADN, réseaux numériques

ART AND MYTHOANALYSISArtist: Hervé FischerComment:

...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 is less painful to...

...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 99%.

... preference is for an authoritarian plutocracy that can be labeled a democracy. This is why the psy-ops principle of “winning hearts and minds” could simultaneously exist with the military strategy of “search and destroy.” Now that winning hearts and minds is not...

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

... wealth, middle-class, professionals, servants, intellectuals, immigrants, demi-monde and criminals. For this social mosaic the artist choice of characters ranges from literature (de Balzac ‘Human Comedy’, Perec Life: A User's Manual and etc). These characters...