Coup Amalgam

Installation at Ithaca College’s “The Exposure” exhibition in 2019

Coup Amalgam is a digitally pulverized collage of dictators throughout history, all of whom seized power from democratically-elected leaders thanks to funding from the United States government.

Using a technique called “datamoshing,” the code of each video was dismembered and reconfigured multiple times during the editing process.

The resulting chaos is a blurred and disorienting semblance of a chronological narrative, drawing a connection between the socioeconomic devastation of the affected nations and the media-induced apathy of U.S. citizens throughout the Cold-War period and beyond.