St James Hatcham, Goldsmiths, University of London
Open: Tuesday 16th 2 - 6pm, Wednesday 17th - Saturday 20th 10am - 6pm
Stepping into an era already defined by confusion, the exhibition Inside Intel presents a speculative “Silicon Valley Imagineering Laboratory,” a 21st century office interior thick with counter-narratives and factual misinformation.
Exploring the landscape of contemporary media and technology, Inside Intel investigates their influence on conspiratorial thinking. Artistic methodologies presented in the show range from the architectural modelling of war crimes to speculative design, via browser-extensions and Twitter-bots, taking in both the satirical and the deeply unsettling. Whilst some artworks peddle faux state propaganda and sinister new technologies, others take the form of genuine investigations and purposefully staged analysis.
The result is an environment where fact, fiction, and the theoretically possible seamlessly blur into one another. Mirroring the difficulties we all face when navigating the fog of electronic propaganda that pervades our new media ecosystems, Inside Intel demands an investigative eye to separate the signal from the noise.
Featuring work by: Benjamin Grosser, Bob Bicknell-Knight, Céline Minkyung Park, Cosmic Latte (Andrew Kiddie, Juan Covelli & Neale Willis), Darren Cullen, Davide Bevilacqua & Veronika Krenn, Eva & Franco Mattes, Ewan Jones Morris, Florentin Aisslinger, Forensic Architecture, Iain Ball, Joey Holder, Joseph Steele, Khaled Barakeh, Lucy Sanderson, Marion Balac, Nick Ryan in collaboration with Sean Malikides, Simon Denny, Ted Hunt, Thomas Yeomans and Yuri Pattison.
Curated by Elliott Burns, Jake Charles Rees and India Murphy. Commissioned in response to the Centre for Investigative Journalism’s 2018 Logan Symposium: Conspiracy.