Wilderness of Mirrors

Wilderness of Mirrors is a photographic survey of an emergent cybernetic landscape that visualizes contemporary mechanisms of control that employ technology, anxiety, and images to destabilize and restructure belief. It presents these conditions as a veritable wilderness, a landscape of images and devices that infinitely deflect, replicate, and distort any information within its borders. The images allude to the ways our perception is directed and managed via algorithm to the benefit of corporate interests and intelligence organizations, and seeks to locate the intersections of simulation, power, and concealment to disentangle the mesh of our personal, political, and digital selves.

Format: Hardback
Length: 144 pages
Publication date: 29 December 2022
Publisher: Yoffy Press

Wilderness of Mirrors is a captivating photographic survey that delves into the emergent cybernetic landscape, capturing a diverse range of locations from the political spectacle of Washington, D.C., to the serene National Radio Quiet Zone in rural West Virginia. Through a series of stunning images, the film visualizes contemporary mechanisms of control that harness technology, anxiety, and images as tools to destabilize and restructure belief systems.

The sequence employs diverse modes of image-making to unveil discrete social and technological systems that are seamlessly embedded into the fabric of everyday life. These systems serve to reinforce and advance dominant structures of capital and power, creating a hyper-partisan fervor and spreading virulent strains of misinformation. Against this backdrop of psychographic advertising and domestic mass-surveillance, the images present a landscape of images and devices that endlessly deflect, replicate, and distort any information within their borders.

The series guides the viewer through these absurd surfaces and circumstances, alluding to the ways in which our perception is quietly directed and managed by algorithms to serve corporate interests and intelligence organizations. By peeling back the layers of simulation, power, and concealment, Wilderness of Mirrors aims to disentangle the mesh of our personal, political, and digital selves, describing an urgent need to reclaim the agency we have lost to convenience and abstraction.

The work seeks to question default realities and reframe our relationship to this digital landscape, before it is completely determined for us. Through its powerful visual language and thought-provoking narrative, Wilderness of Mirrors encourages us to reflect on the implications of our increasingly interconnected world and the potential for transformative change.

Dimension: 228 x 177 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781949608304