Five digital collages explore the intersections of human bodies and technical systems.

He’s Watching You foregrounds the materiality and cunning politics of surveillance capitalism. The collage depicts a modified Mark Zuckerberg floating within layered original photographs of the pipes at one of the internet’s transatlantic entry points that carry fiber optic cables into the United States.

The Most Difficult builds upon distorted images of a derelict basement stairway whose rotted structure is surrounded by walls of exposed concrete. Onto this background is layered a haunting historic photograph of lighthearted camaraderie among staff members of the Auschwitz extermination camp.

Negative Liberty considers the twentieth century development of techniques of mass prediction and modification, aka behavior engineering. Constituent images mark a series of canonical shifts over the course of this history. These include, among others, the development of mass surveillant architectures, the first recognition of the power of variable ratio reward schedules to sustain human behavior, the birth of social network analysis, the application of rational-bureaucratic management techniques to track and typologize human populations, the proliferation of mechanisms by which to target and monitor communication efficacy, the advent of computer-based mass simulation techniques, their first application to democratic elections, and the synthesis of all of the foregoing into continuous, multi-channel, and individualized surveillance + messaging processes.

Rollr Coastr merges images of an airport escalator and a sexual encounter, evoking the mutual mediation between human physical intimacies and contemporary technical forms.

Opposite Equals Advance contemplates the contradictions inherent in the quest for digital life extension. The collage includes the binary digits, and features the quotation: “Unlike analog data, which typically suffers some loss of quality each time it is copied or transmitted, digital data can, in theory, be propagated indefinitely.”