This music video features Mark Zuckerberg singing over a house track. The lyrics of the song are based on my social media correspondence with him. Using facial recognition software, my own words are sung through his mouth.

This work explores what it means to hack into other peoples’ bodies, affects, lives - using technology to ventriloquise the media tycoon. This could be seen in the context of long histories of ritualistic performance: the performer takes on the image of a malevolent spirit. By inhabiting the monstrous, the performer sets out to exorcise its ghastly power.

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Media : HD video (6.20mins)
Commissioner : Arlington Arts Centre, Virginia (USA)
Exhibitions : The Room Projects (Paris) Lux (London, Proyector20, International Video Art Festival (Madrid), Galeria Nueva (Madrid)
Credits : Oisin Byrne (song), Donal Sweeney (audio production)