Poisonous Antidote (Gazelli Art House)

To coincide with the final reading of the Investigatory Power Bill (Oct 2016), Poisonous Antidote was an online and physical exhibition exploring just how intimately you are able to comprehend a person - their humour, temperament and rationale - through only their digital footprint. From the 1st - 30th September 2016, www.poisonous-antidote.com was a live newsfeed of artist Mark Farid’s realtime digital footprint. This included all of his personal and professional emails, text messages, phone calls, Facebook Messenger, web browsing, locations, Twitter and Instagram posts, as well as any photographs and videos Farid captured. Regardless of the time, duration, or intimacy of the content Farid amassed, there was no restriction on the content publicised. Besides the projected display at Gazelli Art House - in collaboration with designer and programmer Vicente Gasco - a 3D printer in the gallery space in London transformed the artist's data at 24-hour intervals, creating an expanding digital landscape: an abstract sculpture formed of 30 unique and adjoining parts, each modelling a day of Farid's digital life