HEXEN 2.0 by Suzanne Treister
- Location
- Ground Floor Mezzanine
- Suggested duration
- 30 mins
- Opening Dates
- Wed 07 Mar 2012 - Mon 30 Apr 2012
- Cost
- Free
- More things about
- Communications and Computing
Part of the Science Museum Contemporary Art Programme
Hexen 2.0 is a project by British artist Suzanne Treister. It charts the coming together of diverse physical and social sciences in the framework of post-Second-World-War US governmental and military imperatives. The body of art works represent Treister’s research into the development of cybernetics, the history of the Internet, the rise of Web 2.0, mass intelligence gathering and the interconnected histories of the counterculture. Through her work she explores the implications of new systems of societal manipulation and the development of a 'control society' alongside historical and current responses to advances in technology.
Find out more about the exhibition and the Museum's Contemporary Art Programme by visiting our Science Museum Arts Projects page.
Details from: HEXEN 2.0/Tarot/0 The Fool - Aldous Huxley; Eight of Swords - US CyberCommand; King of Pentacles - Economic Cybernetics, 2009-11, Archival giclée print with watercolour on Hahnemuhle paper, 21x29.7cm, Courtesy Suzanne Treister and Annely Juda Fine Art