DO YOU KNOW WE ARE RULED? An Interactive Spectacle in the Market Arcade, Buffalo, NY (2014)

Alexis Oltmer and William Bergmann 

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“The society whose modernization has reached the stage of the integrated spectacle is characterized by the combined effect of five principal features: incessant technological renewal; integration of state and economy; generalized secrecy; unanswerable lies; an eternal present.”

- Guy Debord

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“A comfortable, smooth, reasonable, democratic un-freedom prevails in advanced industrial civilization, a token of technical progress. How can individuals satisfy their own needs without hurting themselves, without reproducing, through their aspirations and satisfactions, their dependence upon an exploitation apparatus which in satisfying their needs, perpetuates their servitude?”

- Herbert Marcuse​

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Do you know we are ruled? was exhibited at The CEPA Gallery from May 10th - June 10th, 2014