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"For the last 10 years new media artist, educator, and organizer Nick Briz produced an urgent and electrifying body of work that uses the tools of our digital age to illuminate its promises and perils. Taking shape through software, websites, video essays, and lecture series, Briz has examined the political and environmental implications of Apple’s culture of continuous upgrades, made an early case against Facebook and a series of computer scripts to help users quit it, and mapped the invisible geography of Wi-Fi networks." —Amy Beste "[his] work is bold [...] calculated and very clever [it] use[s] the contemporary capitalist system to reveal the inherent problems and obstructions to freedoms that those very systems create and protect." —Tara Judah "Although Briz’s works are critical of many contemporary tech and internet-based companies and their practices, he doesn't cross the line into digital nihilism—instead, he offers practical solutions for caring for oneself online" —Christy L

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