1. 2019

    Exploring virtualisation and financialisationPlane Of   Theseus

  2. 2018

    Discussing trader/Market relationships (s/D)Never Stop   Stopping

  3. 2016

    Materialising offshore corporate financeOffshore Roundtable
 

PLANE OF THESEUS is a focus group on systems thinking, software virtualisation and corporate financialisation. It takes Boeing's 737 Max crisis, culminating in the 2019 grounding of the plane, as a case study to develop a conversation around those themes.

The focus group asks when and how a plane ceases to be a plane, analysing it both as a system able to impact its actions through virtualisation and as the product of a financialised system able to impact its own value (The Boeing Company).

Participants explore the topic producing screen based work which ranges from websites to games and film.Since 2019, PLANE OF THESEUS has been held as part of the MA Visuelle Kommunikation at Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin and as part of the BA Architecture and MA Moving Image at Ravensbourne University London.

2020 (focus group)
RAVENSBOURNE UNIVERSITY
london
2019 (focus group)
WEISSENSEE KUNSTHOCHSCHULE
berlin
  1. ALT Christine Meyer and Anita Nguyen, MA Visuelle Kommunikation, Weissensee
    Christine Meyer and Anita Nguyen, MA Visuelle Kommunikation, Weissensee
  2. ALT Ezequiel Hyon, BA Visuelle Kommunikation, Weissensee
    Ezequiel Hyon, BA Visuelle Kommunikation, Weissensee
  3. ALT Leon Schöler, MA Visuelle Kommunikation, Weissensee
    Leon Schöler, MA Visuelle Kommunikation, Weissensee
  4. ALT Jason Yang, MA Moving Image, Ravensbourne University London
    Jason Yang, MA Moving Image, Ravensbourne University London
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  6. PLANE OF THESEUS is a focus group on systems thinking, software virtualisation and corporate financialisation. It takes Boeing's 737 Max crisis, culminating in the 2019 grounding of the plane, as a case study to develop a conversation around those themes.

    The focus group asks when and how a plane ceases to be a plane, analysing it both as a system able to impact its actions through virtualisation and as the product of a financialised system able to impact its own value (The Boeing Company).

    Participants explore the topic producing screen based work which ranges from websites to games and film.

    Since 2019, PLANE OF THESEUS has been held as part of the MA Visuelle Kommunikation at Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin and as part of the BA Architecture and MA Moving Image at Ravensbourne University London.

  1. A website with a cloud image in the background and the words 'Crisis Control, the Customers are waiting'
    Christine Meyer and Anita Nguyen, 2019
    MA Visuelle Kommunikation, Weissensee
  2. An artificial landscape with the words 'safe space' and drawings of yellow rocks overlaid
    Judith Weber, 2019
    MA Visuelle Kommunikation, Weissensee
  3. An aircraft flying through dollar signs and oil barrels
    Leon Schöler, 2019
    MA Visuelle Kommunikation, Weissensee
  4. A smiling aircraft with a whale's tail surrounded by the words Boeing 7-3-7
    Yael Ohmer and Anneliese Wabnitz, 2019
    MA Visuelle Kommunikation, Weissensee
  5. Black and white, mri-style scans of the components of an aircraft
    Ezequiel Hyon, 2019
    MA Visuelle Kommunikation, Weissensee
  6. key dates in the production and development of an aeroplane obscured by a quote saying 'ideas are measured in dollars' - managers at boeing
2019

Plane of Theseus

the DEMYSTIFICATION COMMITTEE studies the intensities of late capitalism, engaging with its networks, interfaces and excesses; it is chaired from london and berlin;

chair@demystification.co,
@dmstfctn, @dmstfctn

2021.6.2 (live)
INTERFACE CHAOS LIVE
CAFE OTO
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INTERFACE CHAOS LIVE
CAFE OTO, london
.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... A screening of INTERFACE CHAOS accompanied by SKY H1's live soundtrack
2020 (live)
CTM x TRANSMEDIALE
BERGHAIN, berlin
CTM 2020 x TRANSMEDIALE
BERGHAIN, berlin
(solo)
OFFSHORE MATTERS
AKSIOMA, ljubljana
(interview)
INTERFACE CHAOS
NERO
An interview on the themes of INTERFACE CHAOS (2019), including excerpts
CHASING ILLICIT MONEY
NEW YORK TIMES
Investigative journalism on offshore banking, touching on OFFSHORE SS18
(streaming)
Moneylab #8
AKSIOMA
A panel on artistic explorations of tax havens, led by an investigative journalist
(screening)
INTERFACE CHAOS
FORUM STADTPARK, graz
(focus group)
RAVENSBOURNE UNIVERSITY
london
BA ARCHITECTURE
RAVENSBOURNE UNIVERSITY, london
(release)
RHYTHM, CHAOS & NONPULSED MAN
LD10
RHYTHM, CHAOS AND NONPULSED MAN
LA DELEUZIANA
Text, music and images on Deleuze and Guattari's concepts of chaos and rhythm
2019 (solo)
NETWORK ENSEMBLE
GLUQBAR, milan
(group show)
A SCHOOL OF SCHOOLS
C-MINE, genk
PORTO DESIGN BIENNIAL
TRINDADE, porto
A SCHOOL OF SCHOOLS
LUMA, arles
EMERGENCE
LCC, london
(screening)
Ø.29
CORSICA STUDIOS, london
PORTO DESIGN BIENNIAL
CAMPO 24 DE AGOSTO, porto
INTERFACE CHAOS
TRUST, berlin
ANTIUNIVERSITY NOW
THE MONTPELIER, london
(live)
DESIGNING TIME
DESIGN MUSEUM, london
(residency)
DESIGN SYSTEMS
SHARED INSTITUTE, porto
(release)
Flash Demons
MILLE PLATEAUX
Audiovisual genealogy of financial algorithmic collapse, released as a custom USB
(focus group)
WEISSENSEE KUNSTHOCHSCHULE
berlin
MA VISUAL COMMUNICATION
WEISSENSEE KUNSTHOCHSCHULE, berlin
MA GRAPHIC MEDIA DESIGN
LCC, london
2018 (group show)
4th Design Biennial
ARTER, istanbul
4th Istanbul Design BIENNIAL
ARTER, istanbul
transmediale face value
HKW, berlin
Situation #111
FOTOMUSEUM, winterthur
Projected.Capital
ROEHRS & BOETSCH, zurich
DIGITAL DESIGN WEEKEND
V&A, london
(live)
Radical Networks
SPEKTRUM, berlin
Alt-Age
DESIGN MUSEUM, london
transmediale face value
HKW, berlin
(streaming)
IMPAKT Festival
HET HUIS, utrecht
On the sonification of stock market crashes, part of a panel on algotrading
Automated Lands
NEW INSTITUTE, rotterdam
Automated Landscapes
HET NIEUWE INSTITUUT, rotterdam
On infrastructures and geographies of avoidance, from data centres to tax havens
Borderline Festival
ONASSIS, athens
Borderline Festival
ONASSIS STEGI, athens
"Approach from West India Quay, see what corpses sprouted on the Isle of Dead"
transmediale face value
HKW, berlin
On ways and means of making offshore and other financial processes visible
MoneyLab #4
SOMERSET HOUSE, london
A talk on offshore investigative w—i—p, part of a panel on play in art and finance
On work
SERPENTINE GALLERIES
Algorithmic Superstructures
SERPENTINE GALLERIES
#algotrading #crashcore #spoofing #flashcrash #may62010 #podcast
(talk)
Alt-Age
DESIGN MUSEUM, london
Something or Other
LCC, london
(interview)
BUON PARADISO FISCALE A TUTTI
NOT
An interview on recent and future work of the Demystification Committee
Staying Alive
WE MAKE MONEY NOT ART
A review of OFFSHORE SS18 (2018), part of the 4th Istanbul Design Biennale
What Audre Lorde's language of self care can teach
FRIEZE
Reviewing OFFSHORE INVESTIGATION VEHICLE (2017—18) at transmediale
(release)
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF
SCHLOSS-POST
Fictional tales of a real puppet, directing a Seychelles International Business Company
THE OFFSHORE ECONOMIST
RIZOSFERA
Fiction, poetry, legalese and a shifting layout for a publication on offshore finance
(focus group)
MONEYLAB #4
SOMERSET HOUSE, london
2017 (live)
transmediale vorspiel
NON, berlin
Inside Terrain Vague
UMLAUT, london
(talk)
the influencers
CCCB, barcelona
(group show)
rundgang
UDK, berlin
holding space
THE BRICK CUBE, london
uncertainty playground
LCC, london
(residency)
Vilem Flusser Residency Program
berlin
(focus group)
london design festival
LCC, london
Vilem Flusser Residency Program
berlin
Vilem Flusser Residency Program
PRETIUMOFFICES, berlin
(release)
SELECTED NETWORK STUDIES
NUKFM
Audiovisual experiments with wireless networks, released as custom SD card
2016 (screening)
DELEUZE STUDIES
TRE UNIVERSITY, rome
DELEUZE STUDIES
ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY, rome
(release)
CHAOS VARIATION I
NUKFM
Remixing a 1975 speech by Felix Guattari on the advent of informatics machines