Tate Exchange; Higher Resolution

In 2019 Hyphen-Labs was selected as the Tate Exchange’s artist in residency. Working on the theme of ‘power,’ Higher Resolution brought together the public, artists and over 80 Associate partner organisations within and beyond the arts. 

Inspired by the question ‘how did we get here?’ Hyphen-Labs, questions our relationships with digital devices and platforms and the power of technology. Working in collaboration with Tate Exchange Associates and guest contributors, including Romy Gad el Rab and Caroline Sinders they interrogate how and what we share with our beloved machines and the algorithms that define our privacy, behavior and digital rights.

The installation, fills the 5th floor of Tate’s new wing, is a ‘mis-en-scene’stylized to create a minimalist setting of public -to- private space: town hall, park bench, living room and loo, representing our digital spaces and the gradients of privacy we experience.

The two week opening event saw a construct, an intervention that questions our relationship with the “higher powers” those omnipresent entities in our physical and digital lives. Higher Resolution explores our emotional, intellectual and physical relationships with power, technology and mysticism and the all-seeing powers that hold the answers and solutions. Through collaborative explorations of events, activities, workshops and talks, participants explored the creation of power and the tools to disrupt, resist and redistribute that power.

Collaborators:

Women Like Me (Melissa Wills)
Comuzi (Alex Fefegha & Akil Benjamin)
Noah Levenson
Marija Bozinovska Jones
Internet Age Media (Andres Colmenares & Lucy Black-Swan)
  Mahsa Alimardani
Frederike Kaltheuner (Privacy International)
David Carroll, Ravi Naik, Carole Cadwalladr
  Filipe Vilas-Boas
Natalie Kane
Ekin Bernay
Paul Graham Raven - Superflux
Oanda (Ana Maria Toro) 
Multimedia Anthropology Lab, UCL (Maya Hope Chaldecott, Sophie Mei Birkin, Deborah Tchoudjinoff Hermione Spriggs & Raffaella Fryer)  
Melanie Hoff (Cybernetic Library)
Joanna Skorupska (Radicalzz Studio)
Random Happiness- (Gastón Lisak, Carlos J.Navarro & Nicole Vindel)
Matteo Guarnaccia & Francesco Tagliavia
Conor Rigby-The Feminist Internet
Daniel Sabio aka The Glad Scientist
Cached Collective (Clément Bouttier, Ryan Dzelzkalns, Jon Flint, Vytas Jankauskas, Joana Mateus, Aline Martinez & Felipe de Souza) 
Libby Heaney
Georgina Voss
Irene Tokini Fubara-Manuel
Gabriel Bianconi
Memo Akten
Kenric McDowell
Julia Piekarczyk
Big Brother Watch
Janus Rose
Vivienne Griffin
Mimi Onuoha and Mother Cyborg
Diane Zilliox
Ted Hunt
Kajal Odera (change.org)
Melody Patry (access Now)
Sam Jeffers (Who Targets me)
Karoline Iwanska (Panoptykon Foundation)
Ahmed Razek (BBC)
Anna Bacciarelli (Amnesty International) 
Rachel Coldicutt (Doteverone)
Lucie Parker (Fawcett Society)
Mozilla Foundation