Jakob S. Boeskov
Jakob S. Boeskov | |
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| Born | 23 March 1973 Elsinore, Denmark |
| Known for | Conceptual art, film and music. |
Jakob S. Boeskov is an artist based in New York. His work has been shown in museums such as New Museum and Stedelijk Museum. He is best known for infiltrating a Chinese weapons fair with his ID Sniper project but has also worked with music and film.
ID Sniper rifle
[edit]In 2002, Boeskov and industrial designer Kristian von Bengtson created a fake hi-tech weapon called the ID Sniper rifle.[1] This fictive weapon could shoot off GPS chips into demonstrators so that the police later could locate them and "apply the punishment." Boeskov brought drawings of this weapon to a weapons fair in Beijing, China, where the weapon received positive reactions from real weapons dealers, politicians and policemen. Boeskov described the project "like being a sci-fi writer caught in his own novel" [2] The project received much press[3] and caused Boeskov to receive purchase orders from various security agencies from around the world.
Film and video work
[edit]In 2009 Boeskov wrote and directed the film Empire North which won the 2010 Danish:DOX Award at the CPH:DOX film festival. In 2010 Boeskov collaborated with Creative Time in New York with a video created in Nigeria together with director Teco Benson.
Filmography
[edit]- Empire North (Interpretation Productions, 2010)
- Roy Camera (Ada Lauder Films, 2022)
Discography
[edit]Albums
[edit]- Symbolic And Real Police (2017, S.I. Records)
- Lord Algorithm (2022, TapeLore)
EPs
[edit]- I Think I Scan (2012, w. Timothy DeWit of Gang Gang Dance, Pork Salad Press)
References
[edit]- ^ Der Spiegel interview: http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,347596,00.html
- ^ WNYC radio interview Archived 2007-11-21 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ IT media Japan article about the ID Sniper
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