Founded in 1987 by Steven Kurtz and Steve Barnes, Critical Art Ensemble is an award-winning collective of artists of various specializations, including digital imaging and web design, wetware, film/video, photography, text art, book art, and performance dedicated to exploring the intersections between art, technology, political activism, and critical theory. For almost three decades, CAE has produced and exhibited work that examines questions surrounding information, communications, biotechnologies, and ecological systems. The collective has performed and produced a wide variety of projects for an international audience at diverse venues ranging from the street, to the museum, to the Internet. They have been invited to exhibit and perform in many of the world’s leading cultural institutions, including Documenta, Kassel; the Whitney Museum and the New Museum in New York; the Corcoran Museum in Washington D.C.; the ICA, London; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; and the London Museum of Natural History. The collective has written seven books, and its writings have been translated into twenty languages.

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