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Wearing Gillian goes to the Guggenheim

In 2018 we were honoured work with Turner Prize-winning artist Gillian Wearing on a unique collaboration, which is now showing at New York’s Guggenheim Museum.

We worked with Gillian to create a five minute film, which deploys face-swapping Artificial Intelligence technology and offers a candid insight into the artist. In the film, we hear Gillian talk about herself, but the people onscreen are actors who have the artist’s facial features integrated with their own.

The full film can be viewed as part of Gillian’s exhibition at the Guggenheim until April 2022. Check out the trailer below.

Gumtree pressures government to consider second hand

The UK government thought it would be a good idea to furnish COP26 (the world’s largest environmental conference) with a whole load of new ‘eco’ furniture. 🤦‍♀️

Gumtree thinks it would have been way better to just reuse what already exists.

So yesterday in Glasgow (where COP is happening), we made an art attack using borrowed second hand chairs.

And Gumtree has started a petition that could actually do some good. Please sign it here to encourage the government to consume more consciously.

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