JUNE WAYNE・Art & Science
The Terrestrial Works
Surveillance & Artificial Intelligence
“The human tragedy is said to derive from the ability to understand our own mortality, but such understanding seems inadequate to the fantastic scale of depersonalized data crowding in upon us.”
Slip Stream
“The Visa idea is based on the fact that a fingerprint is unique to each of us, and therefore makes it easier to hunt us down. They derive from my own fingerprints, but I changed them because I didn’t want anyone to be able to catch me.”
Barcelona Wave State II
White Visa
Goodbye
July Wave
“The fingerprint imprisons us a priori as far as the state is concerned. I was aware of and frightened by the Hitler era.”
“Based on images of Wayne’s own fingerprints, the works speak of the genetic uniqueness of this tiny part of the human body. Fingerprints have also been used to identify hunted people, a very sensitive issue for a woman of Jewish heritage. Wayne magnified the image of the fingerprint significantly so that, in macrocosmic terms, “it would loom up like a planet.”
Time Visa
Visa
