Who Owns The Remix (2026)
Sheer black fabric, 144 x 200 inches (365.8 x 508 cm)
Photos courtesy Matt Toups and Liam McGurl
In June 2026, Shirt participated in Studio DEMO x Onassis ONX: Who Owns the Remix? at the New Museum as part of DEMO2026, NEW INC's annual festival of art, design, and technology. Moderated by curator and Mozilla Festival Director Zeina Abi Assy alongside lawyer and DJ Anibal Luque, the conversation examined authorship, sampling, and creative labor in an age of generative AI.
In the first five minutes, when asked where creativity starts, Shirt interrupted his own answer to drape a large sheer black fabric over the panelists as they sat on stage. Measuring almost 12 by 17 feet and hand-sewn in Basel, Switzerland, the fabric was dark enough to obscure detail but sheer enough that the audience could still see the panelists' forms moving underneath.The gesture referenced the forts he built with his brothers as kids using bedsheets, spaces made inside a larger world where you could be yourself, experiment, and feel safe. That visibility through the fabric became part of the conversation, connected to the surveillance logic of AI systems that perceive and extract from what appears to be a private or enclosed space.
The conversation drew from the Mozilla Foundation's Imaginative Intelligences report, considering how appropriation and bootleg culture intersect with emerging technologies and what it means to remix when machines learn from artists without consent or compensation.
More info on instagram here
Additional photos available at request
Sheer black fabric, 144 x 200 inches (365.8 x 508 cm)
Photos courtesy Matt Toups and Liam McGurl
In June 2026, Shirt participated in Studio DEMO x Onassis ONX: Who Owns the Remix? at the New Museum as part of DEMO2026, NEW INC's annual festival of art, design, and technology. Moderated by curator and Mozilla Festival Director Zeina Abi Assy alongside lawyer and DJ Anibal Luque, the conversation examined authorship, sampling, and creative labor in an age of generative AI.
In the first five minutes, when asked where creativity starts, Shirt interrupted his own answer to drape a large sheer black fabric over the panelists as they sat on stage. Measuring almost 12 by 17 feet and hand-sewn in Basel, Switzerland, the fabric was dark enough to obscure detail but sheer enough that the audience could still see the panelists' forms moving underneath.The gesture referenced the forts he built with his brothers as kids using bedsheets, spaces made inside a larger world where you could be yourself, experiment, and feel safe. That visibility through the fabric became part of the conversation, connected to the surveillance logic of AI systems that perceive and extract from what appears to be a private or enclosed space.
The conversation drew from the Mozilla Foundation's Imaginative Intelligences report, considering how appropriation and bootleg culture intersect with emerging technologies and what it means to remix when machines learn from artists without consent or compensation.
More info on instagram here
Additional photos available at request