The Future Archivists is an experimental online documentary about the West Bank. The project blends science fiction and ethnographic tropes and aesthetics and is based…
“The Conditions of Possibility” is a cryptodocumentary that explores the manifold political, ethical and aesthetic dynamics unfolding in post-revolution/post-coup Cairo. While living in Egypt between…
On August 29th, 2012, the Guantanamo Bay Museum of Art and History was opened to the public. The project operates as a critical fiction and experimental documentary…
Texts in Mourning and Action was an online intervention/performance organized in solidarity with the Zapatista communities of Chiapas, Mexico on May 24th, 2014. In collaboration…
A Future Memorial For NAFTA was a performance and installation produced by a collective of artists and activists on January 1st, 2014, the 20th anniversary…
The EU Bird Migration Authority is a fictional agency created while Ian Alan Paul was participating in an artist residency at the HomeSession project in…
In December of 2012, the artists Ricardo Dominguez, Ian Alan Paul and Jane Stevens performed as researchers and consultants from the UC Center for Drone…
The Do Not Kill Registry was a speculative fiction created in 2012 in response to the public revelation that there was a national ‘Kill List‘…
On July 15th, 2011, 667 people from 28 different countries participated in the online networked performance Border Haunt that targeted the U.S.-Mexico border. Participants collected entries…
BorderMachines.net is the result of Ian Alan Paul’s MA thesis project at SFAI. The database essay examines three contemporary artists working in border territories and seeks to…
In late 2009, a document containing all of the text messages that were sent in Manhattan on September 11th, 2001 were anonymously leaked to the…