Introduction to my work
I seek intimate relationships with impersonal structures.The systems I choose to work with—such as police, secret services, CCTV, and forensic identification, function at a distance, with a wide-angle perspective, equalizing everyone and erasing the individual. I seek the potential softness and intimacy of their technologies, the fallacy of their omniscient point of view, the ways in which they hold memory (yet often cease to remember), their engrained position in society (the cause of their invisibility), their authority, their apparent intangibility— and, with all of this, their potential reversibility.
Books by Jill Magid
Becoming Tarden ©2009 186 pages, 40% redacted by the Dutch secret service, AIVD. Currently, available only online.Lincoln Ocean Victor Eddy ©2007
Edition of 800 copies. 64 pages. Printed with support from the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
One Cycle of Memory in the City of L ©2004
Edition of 500 copies. 80 pages. Printed by FACT Liverpool for the Liverpool Biennial International '04.
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Texts by Jill Magid
Theology of MirrorsSeduction as Strategy
MIT Thesis
External Links to Texts
Walking the Neon Line by Marisa Olsen for RhizomeThin Blue Lines… by Roberto Enriquez
Nettime Interview: Jill Magid and Geert Lovink
Essays from Libration Point at Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam
Liverpool Biennial Catalogue essay by Ceri Hand, FACT