The authors of ‘picidae.org’, an open source software tool which breaks national firewalls by redelivering complete, readable and hyperlinked images of blocked web sites, have been dealing with the concealed, obstructed and confidential areas of restricted military, industrial and political areas since 2000. Employing global networking and local participation strategies the tools of the ‘Zone Interdite’ platform are creating a truly visible world map.

‘Public Secrets’ is an interactive interface to an audio archive of hundreds of statements made by current and former prisoners, which unmask the secret injustices of the war on drugs, the criminal justice system and the prison industrial complex in the U.S.A.
Exploring the constructs of electronic networks encompassing one’s personal contacts and social behaviour, trackable digital traces are created. In theory by doing so it is also possible to locate terror cells ... but can the system avoid those within the 'margin of error'?

The projects of Meltzer and Thorne are centred on state secrecy and the production of the past. Current works address the use of documents – images, texts, objects, bodies, and physical structures – to project and claim visions of the future.

'Faceless', a video produced under the 'Manifesto for CCTV Filmmakers' peers into an eerily familiar city that has dispensed with the past and the future. Using footage exclusively from CCTV, the project points to the omnipresent gaze of electronic surveillance rendering the contemporary filmmaker's standard equipment redundant.

This Palestinian - German art project explores the question as to whether waste and refuse can provide accurate testimony to a civilisation's cultural identities. When the dump becomes the source with which to reflect upon the state of being of a restricted society, its material objects, textures and their interpretation become a socio-political archive - an image frozen in time attesting to a precarious way of life caught within a seemingly hopeless diplomatic quagmire.

This Palestinian - German art project explores the question as to whether waste and refuse can provide accurate testimony to a civilisation's cultural identities. When the dump becomes the source with which to reflect upon the state of being of a restricted society, its material objects, textures and their interpretation become a socio-political archive - an image frozen in time attesting to a precarious way of life caught within a seemingly hopeless diplomatic quagmire.

The projects of Meltzer and Thorne are centred on state secrecy and the production of the past. Current works address the use of documents – images, texts, objects, bodies, and physical structures – to project and claim visions of the future.

'Faceless', a video produced under the 'Manifesto for CCTV Filmmakers' peers into an eerily familiar city that has dispensed with the past and the future. Using footage exclusively from CCTV, the project points to the omnipresent gaze of electronic surveillance rendering the contemporary filmmaker's standard equipment redundant.

‘Public Secrets’ is an interactive interface to an audio archive of hundreds of statements made by current and former prisoners, which unmask the secret injustices of the war on drugs, the criminal justice system and the prison industrial complex in the U.S.A.
Exploring the constructs of electronic networks encompassing one’s personal contacts and social behaviour, trackable digital traces are created. In theory by doing so it is also possible to locate terror cells ... but can the system avoid those within the 'margin of error'?

The authors of ‘picidae.org’, an open source software tool which breaks national firewalls by redelivering complete, readable and hyperlinked images of blocked web sites, have been dealing with the concealed, obstructed and confidential areas of restricted military, industrial and political areas since 2000. Employing global networking and local participation strategies the tools of the ‘Zone Interdite’ platform are creating a truly visible world map.