jasmine guffond + ilan katin

microphone permission

The Sound of Surveillance: who is listening? The Australian artist Jasmine Guffond undermines omnipresent surveillance technologies and makes them the subject of her art in the digital underground. She creates “an audible presence for hidden tracking technologies”. Browsers and smartphones arouse her suspicion: an app turned Spanish football fans into unknowing spies in 2018. Using mobile phone microphones and GPS, the provider identified unlicensed sports bars that broadcast football matches. This scandal was the idea behind “microphone permission”.

Guffond makes the data streams of tracking resound, and allows us to learn about the effects of invasive contemporary digital listening practices. This is a seething, disorienting journey into a paranoid musical field between ambient club music and dystopian soundtracks. In addition Ilan Katin animates his abstract video art “live” from prefabricated patterns and ad hoc digitally drawn shapes.

Jasmine Guffond founded the electronic duo Minit in Sydney, moved to Berlin in 2003 and published spun electronica between freak folk and sound experiment under the pseudonym Jasmina Maschina. She has worked as a sound designer in the film industry and composed sounds for the Biennale contribution by Taiwanese artist Shu Lea-Cheang.

Graphic artist Ilan Katin also lives in Berlin and has been part of the Blockchain Art Community since 2018. He publishes works on superrare.co, unknownorigin.io and also works for DADA.art. A long-time collaborator of Jasmine Guffond, he develops live abstract video visuals to the tracks of “microphone permission” at BLAUES RAUSCHEN.

jasmine guffond + ilan katin

microphone permission

Photo © Udo Siegfriedt

Sunday | OCTober 3rd, 2021 | 20:30
Casa Grillo-Theater Essen