PanoptiCorp : Jake Laffoley et Lionell Guzman

---- Live performance during the Opening Night on Friday May 10 at 10:30pm -----

PanoptiCorp is an art collective led by Jake Laffoley and Lionell Guzman. Their work encompasses the practice of performance, writing, filmmaking, graphic design and installation, and is conceptually linked by interests in technocapitalism, computational thinking, startup culture, immaterial labour, and human to machine relations. Humour and satire are key components in their practice as a subversive form of critique, ridiculing the status quo.
The collective’s name repurposes the word “panopticon” indicating an absurd relation to panopticon prison designs which Foucault viewed as a mirror of disciplinary societies of surveillance.
Jake Laffoley has regularly participated in Performance art events in Paris, such as Nuit Blanche 2017, with the solo exhibition Toilet Time Compression 2016, at Xero Kline and Coma, London. T.T.C.T.S.C. - a false advertising and telephone system for Tate Liverpool 2016, among others. Lionell Guzman has participated in exhibitions in Hong Kong, Chicago, and New York fabricating light-based sculptures using pcb engineering, a solo exhibition at Sad Gallery (New York) in which he exposed himself as an undocumented immigrant with fragmented painted portraits of his childhood in the Philippines.
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Hyperglot Caps, Earth Languages is a performance and installation by PanoptiCorp. It compromises as a startup lounge and keynote performance by tech entrepreneur and CPO (chief product officer) Jean-Phillipe Desjardins. Mr. Desjardins will unveil a dubious smart cap that enables real-time language translation. Hyperglot Caps, Earth Languages explores the cult of artificial intelligence, startups which outlandishly claim to have revolutionary AI capabilities, but that are in reality propped up with cheap human labour.

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