Critical Art Ensemble
Critical Art Ensemble (CAE) is a collective composed of five tactical media practitioners. Since 1987, CAE has focused on the exploration of the intersections between art, technology and critical theory. They have published several books on cultural and political analytics, including The Electronic Disturbance (1994), Electronic Civil Disobedience and Other Unpopular Ideas (1996), Flesh Machine (1998), Digital Resistance: Explorations in Tactical Media (2001), The Molecular Invasion (2002) and Marching Plague (2006). They have exhibited in international museums such as the San Francisco Art Institute (San Francisco, 1992), Musee d’Art Moderne (Paris, 1994), the Museum of Applied Arts (Vienne, 1996), ZKM (Karlsruhe, 1999), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Toulouse, 2000), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, 2002), the Museum of Natural History (London, 2003), the Center for Contemporary Art (Barcelona, 2005), the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, 2006), the Royal Danish Art Academy (Copenhagen, 2007) and the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art (Helsinki, 2007). CAE’s works are part of the Whitney Museum, MoMA (New York) and the Tate Gallery (London) collections. They have participated in various contemporary art festivals, including EMAF (Osnabruck, 1995), Documenta X (Kassel, 1997), Transmediale (Berlin, 1997), The Whitney Biennial (New York, 2006) and the Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, 2007). They have been awarded contemporary art prizes such as the Leonardo New Horizons Award for Innovation (2004) and the Andy Warhol Foundation’s Wynn Kramarsky Freedom of Artistic Expression Award (2007). CAE have given lectures and taught graduate classes at universities in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia.