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#santorvs (at Decorex International Syon Park)

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Raving engraving #bad #gaze

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No. 1🔂😗💪

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Black Friday/ Occupy

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87jErmplUpA)

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Gif from Archive Remix, taken from Permission Taken, my first solo show taking place at Birmingham Open Media

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Mask prep gif

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Helping @hellocatfood for his solo show # birmingham open media this Friday 6pm #bthere

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Screenprint on stainless steel #invisibletechnology

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#invisibletechnogy

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Prints on steel #invisibility #invisibletechnogy # metamaterial #drone

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The work was made during a two week residency at Eastside Projects, Birmingham as part of ESP 

Summer Camp. During this period myself and 3 other artists occupied the space. The work is a further development of the fem dazzle work, made in collaboration with Antonio Roberts (@hellocatfood) which provides a digital mask app which avoids detection by computer facial recognition software by disrupting the algorithms used to detect the face.

The mask app works as a billboard on which to advertise a range of activist causes. Whilst advertising the specific cause (in the case Paying artists) the masks renders the participant undetectable to online sources which have been shown to track people associated with activist groups, whilst allowing the participants to receive validation from their personal social groups by the human recognition of their face.

For the particular mask used during this part of the project I asked the other three artists to create a range of visual metaphors for the statistics presented in the  “paying artists” campaign. The premise being that the work can not be created without the participation of the other artists and cannot be completed without the physical participation of the viewer/audience buy taking a photograph wearing the mask.

The photographs taken during the open studio on 07/08/2015 can be found on 

Twitter : @re_dazzle #paying artists

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Art ‘Contests’ Hurt Our Business

If you’re a pro or aspiring to be one, just say ‘no’ to these art contests put on by major brands and marketing companies. All they do is provide the client with tons of free art and a tiny pay day for the selected artist. I’m getting more direct with my replies to these annoying emails - the one below was in reply to an email about designing a can for Mike’s Harder Lemonade (this is a multi-million dollar brand, folks, offering to pay $7500 for winning can design… pathetic)- let’s show these companies that we don’t work for free. 

Dear —-, My schedule is very busy right now, but I have a counter offer for you: I’m looking for a company to rebrand and promote my business. Please put together an amazing campaign and if I like it, I might pay you for it. This is a great opportunity for you – the exposure would be tremendous! The deadline is June 25th.

See how that feels? Do you want to do a pile of work on the off chance you will get compensated for it? Please stop treating professional artists like desperate kids with no business sense. No major brand would exist without the skilled hands and minds of the ARTISTS who make them look good. That is worth millions - please pay accordingly. And keep your contests for Karaoke night at the office.

Sincerely, Kyle T Webster

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Artist Emoji 2

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Artist Emoji 1

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(via Blending In and Standing Out - Camouflage and Masking as Queer Tactics of Negotiating Visibility | Szcześniak | Widok. Teorie i praktyki kultury wizualnej)

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The Patient is Present