Scott Benzel
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In this course
Scott Benzel appears to be an artist or theorist working at the intersection of media obfuscation, computational resistance, and cultural archaeology, evidenced by works like "Polybius" and "Broadcast/Spell Blanket" that seem to engage with digital concealment tactics and the aesthetics of noise. In the course readings, Benzel's work is mobilized to explore how artists deploy flooding, fogging, and informatic disruption—tactics drawn from network security and warfare—as aesthetic and political strategies against surveillance and data extraction. His practice exemplifies the course's central concern with how cybernetic and computational concepts migrate into art as tools for asymmetrical resistance and the reimagining of what obscurity can mean in networked culture.
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