Prompt for participants: Take a picture of someone wearing a tinfoil hat.
project statement
Tinfoil Hats is a visual response project, inspired by Julian Huxley's 1927 story "The Tissue King," in which he wrote about a machine designed for mass telepathy, built as an experimental mind control apparatus to help control a growing population. To protect themselves from the radiating influence of the telepathic broadcast, the inventors of the machine wore aluminum hats, specifically designed to protect their minds from the voice of the apparatus, and by extension from the prying gaze of algorithmic surveillance. This project invites participants to engage the story of the tinfoil hat in their own creative ways.
