Thank you Urok Shirhan for inviting me to speak about steganography this Friday. Unlike other talks, Urok has encouraged and challenged me to speak more personally and reveal the intimate reasons behind my affinity for secret writing. This time, it will be a public disclosure of something different, something scary, something vulnerable…
I was able to spend time with my mum in her shop, Jenny’s Dry Cleaning and Alterations, and learn her trade in clothes reparation. I thought alot about what it means to mend not only clothes but relationships that have been torn over time and distance.
Solo exhibition Hutong Whispers coming up at Drugo More. Very happy to have the chance to present the work that I developed during my Beijing residency at I:projectspace last year.
For the Seoul Mediacity Biennale 2018, Monoskop Exhibition Library explores the notion and medium of ‘art catalogue’. Twenty nine works including Thunderclap appears in this collection.
Invitation by Olia Lialina to host a week’s workshop at the Merz Academy in Stuttgard. Similar to the workshop at KABK, we experimented with various invisible inks, Cardan Grilles, QR codes and coded language as the practice of questioning surveillance, social invisibility and censorship. The result of the workshop were placed around the school and documented on a map drawn with invisible ink waiting to be activated.
It was a pleasure to spend 4 days with graphic design students at The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague. We experimented with various invisible inks, Cardan Grilles, QR codes and coded language as the practice of questioning surveillance, social invisibility and censorship.
Greetings from the Invisible Borderlands by Madeleine Moreley. A feature article on my steganography practice in the first printed magazine of Aiga Eye On Design. Includes a bonus Cardan Grille as a steganographic intervention.
A Media Archeology of Steganography is featured in the catalogue ‘Escaping the Digital Unease‘ with essays by Raffael Dörig, Paul Feigelfeld, Claire Hoffmann, Marie Lechner, Domenico Quaranta and Felix Stalder. It was made for the occasion of the show with the same title.
Participated in The Influencers Festival this year. I gave a talk about The New Nushu/Thunderclap project and hosted an invisible ink workshop.
My work “Greetings from the invisible borderland” has been nominated for the Crypto Design Award. Text from the site: On the 25th of November, we explore new images of the Deep Web with designers, artists and researchers at the Crypto Design Awards in Paradiso, Amsterdam. We exhibit the nominated submissions, and a professional jury will choose the winner of the Crypto Design Award (€1250). The audience can also vote on their favorites for the Audience Award of €750! We received 36 submissions, and today the first selection has been made. All 16 nominees will be presented during the Crypto Design Awards.
