Interference
Netherlands / 2015 / 4'
Plot
Directing their critical attention to the conditions of sharing and display on social media, and recreating Guy Debord’s A Game of War, this videoclip by Metahaven explores how affect and control converge in a new decentralized culture industry.
Full Cast and Crew
Director:
Metahaven
Production:
Lighthouse
Film Editing:
Metahaven
Cinematography:
Metahaven
Mathew Dryhurst
Music:
Holly Herndon
Screenings
| 28/11/2025 | 19:00h | MUSEO REINA SOFÍA |
Director
Metahaven
Metahaven are an Amsterdam-based artist collective whose work comprises filmmaking, design, and writing. Metahaven’s film works include The Feeling Sonnets (Transitional Object) (2024), Chaos Theory (2021), Hometown (2018), Information Skies (2016, nominated for the European Film Awards), and The Sprawl (Propaganda About Propaganda) (2015). As designers, Metahaven have worked or are working with Balenciaga; Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture, Almaty; Tensta konsthall, Stockholm; Valiz, Amsterdam; Sternberg Press, London, and many others. They have done activist design for Independent Diplomat (2014) and WikiLeaks (2010) and have worked on speculative design for Sea Shepherd (2016). Metahaven have presented solo exhibitions at MoMA PS1, New York; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; ICA London; Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Asakusa, Tokyo; Izolyatsia, Kyiv; e-flux, New York, and State of Concept Athens, among others. They have participated in group exhibitions at Artists Space, New York; the Gwangju Biennale; the Sharjah Biennial; Ghost:2561, Bangkok, and many others. Their films have been screened at IFFR, Docs Against Gravity, CPH:DOX, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York, among others. Their work is in several international museum and private collections, including the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Sharjah Art Foundation, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, the V&A, and the National Gallery of Victoria. Metahaven are artistic advisors at Rijksakademie, affiliate researchers at Antikythera, and heads of department at the Geo-Design MA at DAE.
