// 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 an MFA in Art & Technology Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Currently exhibiting DEATHMATCH, new work about virtualized violence at Bert Green Fine Art through September 20th. Gallery open hours Friday 12-4pm or by appointment.
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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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