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*The Great Seal is the first chapter in a trilogy which critically examines the myth of the Judeo-Christian tradition. The settler-colonial myths linking the United States and Israel are thus embodied in the seal. Franklin and Jefferson’s Great Seal reimagines the biblical story of the Israelites exodus from Egypt with America framed as the ‘New Zion’.

Throughout the interactive performance, visitors stand on a rug emblazoned with the design for the original Great Seal of the United States, first proposed by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson in 1776, and subsequently rejected by Congress.

While the form is playful and immersive, the format of the work foregrounds the disturbing seductiveness of ethno-national populism. By employing the visual and ritualistic conventions of a presidential teleprompter and a karaoke ‘sing-along’, participants-turned-demagogues are invited to perform speeches derived from those of American and Israeli politicians and clergymen who spoke at the CUFI summits. In this scenario the Jewish State will play a key role in the imminent battle of the End Times. CUFI galvanizes millions of American Evangelical conservatives who consider Jewish rule over the land of Israel/Palestine a precondition for Christ’s second coming. Summit of Christians United for Israel (CUFI). Now, check if the HID compliant touch screen missing issue is resolved. Go to the Actions tab and select Scan for hardware changes. Navigate to the View tab from the top menu and select Show hidden devices. The piece invites viewers to step on an imagined political arena and take on the role of the keynote speakers at the annual Washington D.C. Press Win + R keys to open the Run dialog box, and then type devmgmt.msc in it and hit Enter. The Great Seal is an immersive installation that investigates the intersection between art, propaganda, religion, and politics. Teleprompters, microphone, touch screen, speakers, 12x12 feet custom printed rug, HD video, HD monitors, 20 minute experience. Thus they must sacrifice for the family and home because it is accepted, expected and honorable for them to do such. Currently NORTD Lab is in the final phases of developing an open source laserscutter called Lasersaur which has already received numerous awards and international media coverage.Interactive installation/performance. The live performance is a manifestation of the belief that we are raised on generational myths that perpetuate a lifestyle or expectation that women are the primary homemakers. Refractor is a multitouch interface for transforming and distorting images. As a woman vacuums a 5×7 foot rug in Union Square Park, twenty-four hours pass by in the city around her. SAHM (stay at home mom), a twenty-four-hour long public performance in which the artist actions become a critique of what she calls ‘social genetics’.

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‘ShadowProject’, a collaborative project with Stefan Hechenberger, that involves a series of reactive wall like installations about computer-controlled architectural components. Wagenknecht’s most recent works include ‘ctrl+z: the career machine’, in which she sets up ‘donations points’ offering women the chance to get their careers back by ‘donating’ their children to science. From 2007 to 2008, Hechenberger was an honorary fellow at Eyebeam.34 In 2011, under NORTD labs. Wagenknecht is currently a Resident at the New York City based Free Art and Technology Lab aka F.A.T. In 2011, under NORTD labs she was a fellow at Culture Lab. During 2012 NORTD labs held residencies at Hyperwerk Institute for Postindustrial Design in Basel, Switzerland and was a short term fellow at the STUDIO in March. From 2007 to 2008 she was a fellow at Eyebeam Atelier. In 2006, Wagenknecht founded with her husband Stefan Hechenberger, the New York City and Vienna based research and development lab, NORTD labs, which developed the open source system called CUBIT (multi-touch) and the more recent iteration TouchKit. Her thesis at NYU focused on computational fabricated forms and computer vision with an emphasis on open source multitouch systems.

There she completed a Masters at New York University as a Wasserman Scholar and shortly after held a fellowship at Eyebeam Atelier, CultureLabUK and more recently at HyperWerk Institute for Post-Industrial Design. For the following two years, she hitchhiked around the world documenting places and people with her camera, before returning to New York City in 2005. Soon after she received an invitation to work under Mary Ellen Mark and quickly learned where to get very expensive haircuts. At sixteen she fled to New York City where she studied experimental photography at the International Center for Photography. Addie Wagenknecht was born during the Reagan administration in Portland, Oregon.

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