Hasan Elahi Biography

When the Feds come after you you have several options: panic resist or if you’re interdisciplinary American artist Hasan Elahi flood them with information. It all started in 2002 when Elahi was detained in Detroit after a flight from the Netherlands suspected of hoarding explosives in a Florida locker. Though lie detector tests subsequently cleared him Elahi – who is an associate professor at the University of Maryland and has exhibited at the Venice Biennale the Centre Pompidou and the Hermitage – was subjected to six months of questioning about his extensive international travels. Figuring once in the system never out he decided to turn the tables and cooperate – with a vengeance.
Starting with constant phone calls and emails to the FBI to notify them of his whereabouts what started as a practicality grew into an open-ended art project. He began posting photos of his minute-by-minute life up to around a hundred a day on TrackingTransience.net – hotel rooms train stations airports meals beds receipts even toilets – generating tens of thousands of images in the last several years. Just for good measure he also wears a GPS device that tracks his movements on his site’s live Google map. And as if to prove his point that “the best way to protect privacy is to give it away” Elahi – while still being watched by the authorities according to server records – hasn’t been bothered since.

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