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In 1993, the City of Darkness, or the Walled City of Kowloon, was demolished. To the 35,000 people living in this dense urban slum, the change was the end of a lawless existence. The area was a diplomatic black hole, the model of an anarchist society somehow allowed to grow organically without the aid of any government, existing somewhere outside of both British Hong Kong and China.

The buildings of "Hak Nam" folded into one other in a dense configuration of labyrinthine corridors and seedy brown shacks stacked up 10, 12 and 14 stories high. It was a solid building, 200 x 100 meters, a pulsating anomaly, one of the most densely populated places in the world at the time of its destruction. It was called "the world’s first flexible megastructure, the closest thing to a truly self-regulating, self-sufficient, self determining modern city that has ever been built," "an environment as richly varied and as sensual as anything in the heart of the tropical forest."

1977. Theodore Kaczynski – qui ne répond pas encore au surnom de « Unabomber » – s’isole dans une petite cabane du Montana où il esquisse les premières ébauches de son manifeste anticapitaliste et travaille à la conception de colis piégés. Dans le même temps, Paul Laffoley – qui ne sait pas encore qu’il va être enlevé par des extraterrestres – vit confiné dans les quinze mètres carrés de son atelier (le Boston Visionary Cell à Boston) où il peint The Renovatio Mundi, une vision du monde empreinte de références aux fondements de la science-fiction. Au même moment, Saddam Hussein – alors vice-président de la République d'Irak – recrute des sosies pour le remplacer lors de diverses apparitions publiques. La même année, pendant que Dieter Roth travaille à un projet de longue haleine, un inventaire photographique de toutes les rues et les maisons de Reykjavik (35'000 diapositives), Dark Vador envahit les écrans de cinéma exactement deux cents ans après que Napoléon Bonaparte a obtenu une bourse de l’école militaire de Brienne en Champagne.

Une logique commune traverse ces événements. Une logique que tente de décrypter CHASING NAPOLEON. S’appuyant sur les réflexions d’artistes, scientifiques et autres activistes, cette session révèle des systèmes de pensées visant à déplacer le centre de gravité de notre réalité et dessine des utopies qui ne se révèlent que sous la tension d’une traque incessante.

However like dark matter, dark users are observable due to their effects on the rest of the universe. If a dark user comments on a stream entry, I can see that comment. More importantly, I can see their user-ID, and I can generate a URL to a page that will contain their name. I can then watch for their activities elsewhere. Granted, I can't directly search for their activity, but I can observe their effects on my friends. For want of a better term, I've been calling this "dark stalking".

Terre Natale (Exits 2) is a half-hour immersive visualization of human migration data.

Visitors enter a dark rotunda to discover a mirror-image Earth revolving around the room, printing animated maps and data to the wall's curved surface. Divided into five narratives, this piece quantifies both voluntary and forced movement across the globe due to political, economic, and environmental factors.

GAE = Hoping for a hot date, but ending up in a dark alley crying softly, anally bleeding, after an accident with a gaggle of big black men.