// Mac Pierce
Mac’s practice operates like a memetic gut: absorbing and transforming the strange, under-moderated corners of the internet and the emerging technologies that shaped his understanding of how digital systems influence behavior and harm. He tracks new technological phenomena until a form emerges that can carry their conceptual weight, resulting in digitally fabricated sculptures that integrate 3D printing, electronics, and traditional sculpture materials. His work critically engages weaponized technologies - hacking, surveillance, firearms - using their own grammar as material.
Mac received a BFA in Studio Art & Design from the University of Idaho and an MFA in Art & Technology Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Full CV can be found here - [CV page]
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2025
Samuel Schwindt’s review of DEATHMATCH for NewCity - War Machine: A Review of Mac Pierce at Bert Green Fine Art (NewCity)
Susan Gescheidle’s review of DEATHMATCH for Chicago Gallery News - Deathmatch by Mac Pierce at Bert Green: An Intimate Artistic Exploration of War and Games, Both Real and Pretend (CGN)
Talking with Jake Leech of the Airing Out the Archive podcast about his artistic practice and the works within DEATHMATCH - Episode 19: Mac Pierce (Apple Podcasts)
2024
Frank Geiser reviews A Third Act for - Mythologies of AI Consent: A Review of “A Third Act” at Sulk Chicago (NewCity)
2023
A selection of articles about the Camera Shy Hoodie - Vice / PetaPixel / Popular Science / Hackaday
Talking with Gabriel Custodiet of Watchman Privacy about facial recognition obfuscation and the Camera Shy Hoodie - Mac Pierce: Facial Recognition Obfuscation (Youtube)
2nd place announcement for the Berkley Center for Long Term Cybersecurity’s cybersecurity art contest - CLTC Announces Winners of Third Annual Cybersecurity Arts Contest (Berkley CLTC)
Talking with Ben Ditto about 3D printed firearms - “Printed Freedom”: 3D-printed firearm culture (Youtube)
2021
Tom Nardi writing about A Scanner Darkly - Building An Army Of Faux Cameras In The Name Of Art (Hackaday)
A writeup on Portrait of A Digital Weapon by Anool Mahidharia - Portrait of a Digital Weapon (Hackaday)
2019
A talk at Artisans Asylum I gave in the GBH Forum Network about surveillance and the Opt-Out cap - Mac Pierce Hacks the System (Youtube)
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