// Mac Pierce
Mac critically engages with weaponized emerging technologies, making artworks that examines topics that may otherwise fall into the shadows. Using technology as a medium to create artworks, his practice communicates concepts about computer hacking, surveillance, and firearms using the grammar inherent to these systems.
Mac received a BFA in Studio Art & Design from the University of Idaho, and recently wrapped up 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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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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