About the project Trickle Down: A New Vertical Sovereignty by Helen Knowles
About the project Trickle Down: A New Vertical Sovereignty by Helen Knowles
Multimedia artist and curator Helen Knowles' Trickle Down: A New Vertical Sovereignty, produced by FutureEverything, is a four-channel video installation connected to the blockchain and devoted to the study of the difference in value systems and structures of wellbeing of different communities and social categories.
In her other works, Knowles explores the new social and economic structures of the Internet and the digital world as they overlap and interact with the structures of the offline world.
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Artist’s biography
Helen Knowles (b. 1975) is an artist and curator whose practice stems from an interest in the new sovereign territories of the Internet and the digital world. Her most recent film work, The Trial of Superdebthunterbot, is a 45-minute docu-fiction in which she put a debt collecting algorithm on trial at Southwark Crown Court. The defence and prosecution was written and performed by real lawyers, and a real jury deliberated to find whether the algorithm was guilty or not.
Knowles has exhibited internationally, including at Mori Art Museum (Tokyo), NEMO Festival (Paris), the Ministry of Justice and Consumer Affairs (Berlin), Hannover Kunstverein, Impakt Festival, ZKM Karlsruhe, and Zabludowicz Collection (London).
Her work is held in private and public collections including the Whitworth Art Gallery (Manchester), Gallery Oldham, Tate Library and Archive (London), the National Art Library (London), the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection (Chicago), the Museum of Motherhood (New York), the Birth Rites Collection (London), and MMU Special Collections (Manchester). A recipient of awards from Arts Council England International Development Fund and The Amateurs Trust, in 2012 she won the Neo Art Prize, Great Art Prize for two works from the YouTube Portraits Series. She lives and works in London.
About FutureEverything
Established in Manchester in 1995, FutureEverything is an award-winning innovation lab and cultural organization that has helped shape the emergence of digital culture in Europe. Through a curated program of art commissions, exhibitions, critical conversations, and collaborations, FutureEverything pushes creative boundaries and stimulates new ways of thinking, creating opportunities to question and reflect on the world around us.
From its base in Manchester (UK), FutureEverything has delivered national and international projects and strategic partnerships in the UK, Europe, Qatar, China, India, North and South America and with partners such as the British Council, the National Trust, GM Arts, Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Manchester, Mozilla Foundation, Onassis Foundation, Ars Electronica, Elektra, Cisco, as well as national and international museums, galleries, and other organizations.