Automated Compression, 2017
HD digital video
3 min 50 sec
A video that explores how airport security has become increasingly strengthened, with the help of new technologies, in a post 9/11 world.
The work revolves around a retracted episode of Friends, meant to air 2 weeks after 9/11, which features Chandler Bing joking about having a bomb whilst going through airport security.
Automated Compression has been included in the following exhibitions:
– Everything is destined to reappear as simulation, curated by CURRENT. At Verona Art Fair, Verona, IT, 13th – 16th October 2017.
BOB BICKNELL-KNIGHT 