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Software for Less at Aksioma in Slovenia

My solo exhibition Software for Less is now on view at the Aksioma Institute of Contemporary Art in Ljubljana, Slovenia! It is Aksioma’s fourth and final installment in their New Extractivism series, which also featured solo exhibitions by Joana Moll, …

posted on 06/01/2022 | tagged: ,

Social Media Works Featured at Fast Company

Several of my social media-related works, including Minus, Facebook Demetricator, Go Rando, and ORDER OF MAGNITUDE were the subject of a feature article at Fast Company: … Grosser focuses on the cultural effects of social media, particularly the way it …

posted on 10/18/2021 | tagged:

Solo Exhibition Reviewed in The Guardian

My solo exhibition, Software for Less at arebyte Gallery in London, was reviewed in The Guardian / Observer. The article, titled How artist Ben Grosser is cutting Mark Zuckerberg down to size, walks through a number of my works, talking …

posted on 08/21/2021 | tagged: ,

Not For You

An automated confusion system for TikTok Not For You (2020)demonstration video 10x timelapse (see below for real-time video) Install Install Not For You on Firefox Install Not For You on Chrome Description Not For You is an “automated confusion system” …

posted on 10/26/2020 | tagged: ,

Dialogue with Geert Lovink on Media Art in the Age of Platform Capitalism

I first met Geert Lovink in 2013, while attending the Unlike Us #3 conference at the Institute for Network Cultures in Amsterdam (INC). I was there to speak about Facebook Demetricator, in what was at that time one of the …

posted on 04/30/2020 | tagged: , ,

Ben Grosser Presents at The WRONG TV

The latest project to come out of The Wrong (which runs The Wrong Digital Art Biennale) is The Wrong TV–a new online tv platform for digital art, music & culture, with 24/7 free live streaming. David Quiles Guilló reached out …

posted on 04/06/2020 | tagged: ,

Interview about Social Media Demetrication on PBS

On Monday I spoke with Chicago PBS’ nightly news program Chicago Tonight, talking about social media metrics and my seven years of work on Facebook/Twitter/Instagram Demetricator. Read the story and watch the interview here.

posted on 08/08/2019 | tagged: ,

ORDER OF MAGNITUDE

As the founder and CEO of the world’s largest social media corporation, what does Mark Zuckerberg think about? While we get clues from his posts on Facebook and elsewhere, a primary window into this question is through his public video …

posted on 05/02/2019 | tagged: , , ,

Works Cited in Zuboff’s Book on Surveillance Capitalism

I was happy to find my works Facebook Demetricator, Twitter Demetricator, and Go Rando all cited in Shoshana Zuboff’s new book, titled The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. Zuboff …

posted on 03/21/2019 | tagged:

New York Magazine Discusses Kanye, Twitter, and My Years of Work on Social Media Demetrication

It’s an interesting moment—at least for me—because we’re starting to see increased calls for hiding the metrics on social media platforms. The latest was Kanye West, who tweeted that “we should be able to participate in social media without having …

posted on 09/21/2018 | tagged: