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Limits of Control

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American Artist. 2015. 2019. High-definition video (color, sound), 21:56 min.
  • MoMA, Floor 2, 214

How do systems—of technology, society, the state—determine our behavior? The artists in this gallery address the ways in which information and infrastructure are deployed to shape our every move, from regimes of surveillance and censorship to traffic control.

American Artist’s 2015 (2019) and Untitled (2019) are presented as part of the exhibition Signals: How Video Transformed the World.

Organized by Michelle Kuo, The Marlene Hess Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, and Erica Papernik-Shimizu, Associate Curator, with Gee Wesley, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Media and Performance.

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