Andrew Norman Wilson
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Andrew Norman Wilson is an artist, curator, and filmmaker whose practice is mostly based in research and documentary. His works—ranging from videos, sculptures, drawings, and performance lectures, to photography and mixed-media—investigate and critique the aesthetics and inequalities of the corporate world and the myths of technology. He often explores the effects of globalization in the realms of labor, capital, and information, highlighting cases that involve misconduct. The aesthetics of his work often knowingly employ the same digital mechanisms produced by the corporate systems he critiques. Gaining access to and exposing the internal systems of corporations is a key element for the artist’s earlier work. His most well known work that investigates these themes is Workers Leaving the Googleplex (2011). In his most recent works, Wilson has taken an interest in nonhuman entities, including mosquitos, dinosaurs, puppets, and oil pumps—using them as stand-ins for humans to explore human morality from a more “objective” perspective. They are often presented in endless loops to break the linearity of a traditional model of time, in which past, present, and future follow each other in a consecutive fashion.
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Andrew Norman Wilson is an artist, curator, and filmmaker whose practice is mostly based in research and documentary. His works—ranging from videos, sculptures, drawings, and performance lectures, to photography and mixed-media—investigate and critique the aesthetics and inequalities of the corporate world and the myths of technology. He often explores the effects of globalization in the realms of labor, capital, and information, highlighting cases that involve misconduct. The aesthetics of his work often knowingly employ the same digital mechanisms produced by the corporate systems he critiques. Gaining access to and exposing the internal systems of corporations is a key element for the artist’s earlier work. His most well known work that investigates these themes is Workers Leaving the Googleplex (2011). In his most recent works, Wilson has taken an interest in nonhuman entities, including mosquitos, dinosaurs, puppets, and oil pumps—using them as stand-ins for humans to explore human morality from a more “objective” perspective. They are often presented in endless loops to break the linearity of a traditional model of time, in which past, present, and future follow each other in a consecutive fashion.