For the past decade Jon Kessler, the artist and professor in Columbia University‘s Visual Arts program, has been using his character the Global Village Idiot as a way to explore themes of surveillance, interconnectivity, and the slippage between reality and fiction that is created by the forces of digital technology and the Internet. A visionary who appears to be something of a cross betweenHoward Hughes, a Silicon Valley genius in the Steve Jobs vein, and the Unabomber, the Global Village Idiot has staged mind-bending provocations at Deitch Projects (installing state-of-the-art surveillance technology in the gallery), the Swiss Institute, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, and MySpace.
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