OFFSHORESS18 was a beachwear collection consisting of three swimsuits, two pairs of swim shorts and a beach towel. The apparel was produced in an edition of 90 total items and sold through an international corporate structure set up by DMSTFCTN. Any customer purchasing beachwear from an online shop triggered a tax avoidance scheme whereby the revenue from the sale would be moved to a tax haven in order to avoid corporate tax. The resulting savings were distributed back to members of the public who had originally invested in the collection by purchasing shares in the company producing it, and the scheme is documented through diagrams printed on the apparel. OFFSHORESS18 aimed to test a functional model of an offshore corporate structure by circulating a small amount of money through it, letting buyers and investors alike witness the process from an advantageous point of view.

    2020 (solo)
    OFFSHORE MATTERS
    AKSIOMA, ljubljana
    (talk)
    Moneylab #8
    AKSIOMA
    A panel on artistic explorations of tax havens, led by an investigative journalist
    (press)
    CHASING ILLICIT MONEY
    NEW YORK TIMES
    'A group of artists began a project to show how money could be moved offshore'
    2019 (group show)
    A SCHOOL OF SCHOOLS
    C-MINE, genk
    A SCHOOL OF SCHOOLS
    LUMA, arles
    2018 (live)
    transmediale face value
    HKW, berlin
    (group show)
    4th Design Biennial
    ARTER, istanbul
    (talk)
    MoneyLab #4
    SOMERSET HOUSE, london
    A talk on offshore investigative w—i—p, part of a panel on play in art and finance
    (release)
    A DAY IN THE LIFE OF
    SCHLOSS-POST
    'The phone on the cafe table buzzes: Graham. Mark sighs. Graham is a prick'
    2017 (talk)
    the influencers
    CCCB, barcelona
    (residency)
    Vilem Flusser Residency
    TRANSMEDIALE, berlin

    7. OFFSHORESS18 was a beachwear collection consisting of three swimsuits, two pairs of swim shorts and a beach towel. The apparel was produced in an edition of 90 total items and sold through an international corporate structure set up by DMSTFCTN. Any customer purchasing beachwear from an online shop triggered a tax avoidance scheme whereby the revenue from the sale would be moved to a tax haven in order to avoid corporate tax. The resulting savings were distributed back to members of the public who had originally invested in the collection by purchasing shares in the company producing it, and the scheme is documented through diagrams printed on the apparel. OFFSHORESS18 aimed to test a functional model of an offshore corporate structure by circulating a small amount of money through it, letting buyers and investors alike witness the process from an advantageous point of view.

    2018

    OFFSHORESS18

    2023.4.18 (live)
    Godmode Epochs
    SERPENTINE, twitch
    .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... A game where players train an AI, but they actually just frustrate it until it cheats
    (release)
    Large Lore Models
    0XPARC
    'Large Lore Models', in AUTONOMOUS WORLD N1
    0XPARC
    Speculative tools for decentralized narrative building, with E. Jäger and A. Milne
    (demo)
    AI UK 2023
    QEII CENTRE, london
    (residency)
    GODMODE CHRONICLES
    ARTECHO
    Building a fully on-chain narrative generation game, a.k.a a 'Large Lore Model'
    (press)
    Turret Theory
    SERPENTINE
    Alasdair Milne examines the simulations and configurations of dmstfctn's game
    2022 (live)
    GOD MODE (ep. 1)
    SERPENTINE, london
    IMPAKT FESTIVAL
    HET HUIS, utrecht
    UNSOUND BUBBLES
    kraków
    GOD MODE (ep. 1)
    HQI, london
    (press)
    Artist conversation with dmstfctn
    IMPAKT TV
    A conversation on simulations and AI hosted Marijn Bril at IMPAKT festival 2022
    2021 (group show)
    NONPLUSULTRABLACK
    SYNNIKA, frankfurt
    (screening)
    INTERFACE CHAOS ft SKY H1
    CAFE OTO, london
    (release)
    ECHO FX
    KRISIS PUBLISHING
    A book and performance about market manipulation on Brexit Referendum night
    Ø
    FLATLINE PRESS/HYPERDUB
    (press)
    Demystification Committee debuts echo fx
    AQNB
    'The AV show revisits the sociopolitical and economic tumult following Brexit'
    ECHO FX
    SLEEK
    'A modern tale, constructed of lies, gorilla advertising bus campaigns and ...'
    REALITY CHECK AHEAD
    CLOT
    'If the performance was a reaction, the book is a reflection, at 0x speed ...'
    2020 (live)
    CTM × TRANSMEDIALE
    BERGHAIN, berlin
    (solo)
    OFFSHORE MATTERS
    AKSIOMA, ljubljana
    (screening)
    INTERFACE CHAOS
    FORUM STADTPARK, graz
    (talk)
    Moneylab #8
    AKSIOMA
    A panel on artistic explorations of tax havens, led by an investigative journalist
    (press)
    INTERFACE CHAOS ft SKY H1
    NERO
    An interview on the themes of INTERFACE CHAOS (2019), including excerpts
    CHASING ILLICIT MONEY
    NEW YORK TIMES
    'A group of artists began a project to show how money could be moved offshore'
    2019 (live)
    DESIGNING TIME
    DESIGN MUSEUM, london
    (solo)
    NETWORK ENSEMBLE
    GLUQBAR, milan
    (group show)
    A SCHOOL OF SCHOOLS
    C-MINE, genk
    PORTO DESIGN BIENNIALE
    TRINDADE, porto
    A SCHOOL OF SCHOOLS
    LUMA, arles
    (screening)
    Ø.29
    CORSICA STUDIOS, london
    PORTO DESIGN BIENNIALE
    CAMPO 24 DE AGOSTO, porto
    INTERFACE CHAOS
    TRUST, berlin
    INTERFACE CHAOS
    EVENING CLASS, london
    (release)
    Flash Demons
    MILLE PLATEAUX
    Audiovisual genealogy of financial algorithmic collapse, released as a custom USB
    2018 (live)
    transmediale face value
    HKW, berlin
    Borderline Festival
    ONASSIS, athens
    Borderline Festival
    ONASSIS STEGI, athens
    "Approach from West India Quay, see what corpses sprouted on the Isle of Dead"
    Radical Networks
    SPEKTRUM, berlin
    (group show)
    4th Design Biennial
    ARTER, istanbul
    4th Istanbul Design BIENNIAL
    ARTER, istanbul
    transmediale face value
    HKW, berlin
    Situation #111
    FOTOMUSEUM, winterthur
    (talk)
    Automated Lands
    NEW INSTITUTE, rotterdam
    Automated Landscapes
    HET NIEUWE INSTITUUT, rotterdam
    On infrastructures and geographies of avoidance, from data centres to tax havens
    transmediale face value
    HKW, berlin
    On ways and means of making offshore and other financial processes visible
    IMPAKT Festival
    HET HUIS, utrecht
    On the sonification of stock market crashes, part of a panel on algotrading
    MoneyLab #4
    SOMERSET HOUSE, london
    A talk on offshore investigative w—i—p, part of a panel on play in art and finance
    Alt-Age
    DESIGN MUSEUM, london
    (release)
    A DAY IN THE LIFE OF
    SCHLOSS-POST
    'The phone on the cafe table buzzes: Graham. Mark sighs. Graham is a prick'
    The Offshore Economist
    Rizosfera
    'You are alone on a dusty desert road... You have just run out of water.....'
    2017 (talk)
    the influencers
    CCCB, barcelona
    (residency)
    Vilem Flusser Residency
    TRANSMEDIALE, berlin
    (release)
    SELECTED NETWORK STUDIES
    NUKFM
    Audiovisual experiments with wireless networks, released as custom SD card