Skip Tracing: Homunculi Physically & Computationally Grafted (2021) An exhibition of objects created from abstractions of personal/financial accounts, genetic sequences, and data available online; willingly or otherwise. A Prometheanist fantasy realized in the hermetic homunculus–an artificial being of predictive properties whose creation indicates a mastery of knowledge regarding the human and the beyond– is revitalized from paper trails data mined to formalize an ideal user to be marketed & traced. Predictive beings forged via past histories/selves, and machine learning processes aided by surveillance; the game where escape is the impossible act. A basic stand-in/decoy sits in place to poison the set and create a homunculus/set/self with no use; a truly useless and ‘pataphysical being; Tofighi’s Basilisk.
at the opening reception the composition Paracelsus Airway: Sampled Cost was performed by Liquid Plastic