The Committee to Nuke Elysium

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Temporary tattoos, binary code, Walter Benjamin
2012 

[Commission for the group show “Business Innovations for Ubiquitous Authorship”Higher Pictures, 980 Madison Ave, NY]

For this exhibition each artist was asked to create a new work using an existing print-on-demand or customized printing service. The following phrase, translated into binary code and separated out into 8-digit strings, was realized as 126 unique temporary tattoos, to be worn on the forearm or wherever. 

The growing proletarianization of modern man and the increasing formation of masses are two aspects of the same process. Fascism attempts to organize the newly created proletarian masses without affecting the property structure which the masses strive to eliminate. Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves. 

[Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.”]

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