Selected projects

Infodemic

Epic Sock Puppet Theater

Disinformation from animatronic puppets

Infodemic

Boogaloo Bias

Facial Recognition by Any Memes Necessary

Infodemic

Going Viral

Neural Network-Generated Celebrity PSAs

Infodemic

Infodemic

"Fake news spreads faster and more easily than this virus, and is just as dangerous."

Emotional Stress Test

WarTweets

Pervasive protest game

CSIA

Public Dissentiment

Algorithmic Protest Tool

CSIA

Crowd-Sourced Intelligence Agency

Participatory Surveillance

Art Asset Group

Art Investment 2014-AA1

Financial innovation hacking

Emotional Stress Test

Emotional Stress Test

Stock market interface based on stress

CDS Mess

CDS Mess

Cardgame about Financial Instruments

CDS Mess

Attack of the Zombie Banks

Video game about mortgage fraud

Dérive (in Google Earth)

Dérive (in Google Earth)

Algorithmic Psychogeography

Viaticus Par Eximo Sermo

Viaticus Par Eximo Sermo

Installation that visualizes how campaign contributions became free speech

Artificial Person

Artificial Person

Participatory installation that uses smoke and mirror mirages to visualize the process of incorporation

Avant-Garde Disambiguator

Avant-Garde Disambiguator

Web application for determining the meaning of ‘avant-garde’

Neighbor-Hood

Neighbor-Hood

participatory intervention that reveals the resemblance between gated communities and street gangs.


About Derek (the short version)

Derek Curry is an artist, researcher, and theorist. Derek received his MFA in New Genres from UCLA in 2010 and his Ph.D in Media Study from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2018. His dissertation focused on agency in algorithmic decision making, especially in financial trading systems. His artwork draws from the traditions of Tactical Media, Institutional Critique, and Hacktivism, and often addresses political, social, and technological assumptions from a critical perspective. Read more here.