Border Haunt /// 2011
On July 15th, 2011, 667 people from 28 different countries participated in the online collective action “Border Haunt” that targeted the U.S.-Mexico border. Participants collected entries from a database that holds the names and descriptions of migrants that died trying to cross the border territory and then sent those entries into a database [...]
Predators /// 2011
Predators (2011) is a digital video which counts the number of individuals killed by U.S. Military Predator Drones in Pakistan between January/2004 and October/2011. From Wikipedia: “Former CIA officials state that the agency uses a careful screening process in making decisions on which individuals to kill via drone strikes. The process, carried out at the agency’s [...]
Border Machines /// 2010
BorderMachines.net is the result of Ian Alan Paul’s MA thesis project at SFAI and was completed in May of 2011. This website looks to three contemporary artists working in border territories and seeks to establish a ground on which we can begin to think the undoing of borders. This site is organized rhizomatically and has many routes and [...]
Security Screenings /// 2010
Security Screenings is a series of 6 lightboxes. The pieces are produced by aggregating images from google’s index of images on the web. The first 100 image results from searches of specific terms (September 11th, Afghanistan, Iraq, Security, Surveillance, Threat Level) are then composited into one image and are mounted in a light box.
Domestic Violence /// 2008
For the Domestic Violence project, I collected images taken during the Iraq war and projected them onto suburban facades throughout California. The projections/interventions lasted 1 hour for each iteration. Photographs of the projections were then mounted in 22″ x 33″ lightboxes for exhibition.