Jakob S. Boeskov is an
artist based in New York.
His work has been shown in museums such as
New Museum
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker, is a museum in New York City at 235 Bowery, on Manhattan's Lower East Side.
History
The museum originally opened in a space in the Graduate Center of the then-named New Sch ...
and
Stedelijk Museum. He is best known for infiltrating a Chinese weapons fair with his
ID Sniper project but has also worked with music and film.
ID Sniper
In 2002, Boeskov and industrial designer Kristian Von Bengtson created a fake hi-tech weapon called the
ID Sniper rifle. This fictive weapon could shoot off
GPS
The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, is a satellite-based radionavigation system owned by the United States government and operated by the United States Space Force. It is one of the global navigation satellite sy ...
chips into demonstrators so that the police later could locate them and "apply the punishment." Boeskov brought drawings of this weapon to a weapons fair in Beijing, China, where the weapon received positive reactions from real weapons dealers, politicians and policemen.
Boeskov described the project ''"like being a sci-fi writer caught in his own novel"''
The project received much press
IT media Japan article about the ID Sniper
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Film and video work
In 2009 Boeskov wrote and directed the film Empire North which won the 2010 Danish:DOX Award at the CPH:DOX film festival. In 2010 Boeskov collaborated with Creative Time in New York with a video created in Nigeria together with director Teco Benson.
Filmography
* ''Empire North'' (Interpretation Productions, 2010)
* ''Roy Camera'' (Ada Lauder Films, 2022)
Discography
Albums
* ''Symbolic And Real Police'' (2017, S.I. Records)
* ''Lord Algorithm'' (2022, TapeLore)
EPs
* ''I Think I Scan'' (2012, w. Timothy DeWit of Gang Gang Dance, Pork Salad Press)
Chinese hacker attack
On June 4, 2009, on the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square protests
The Tiananmen Square protests, known in Chinese as the June Fourth Incident (), were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square, Beijing during 1989. In what is known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, or in Chinese the June Fourth ...
, Boeskov's website was hacked and infiltrated with malware by Chinese hackers, most likely the Honker Union. This cyberwarfare happened at the same time as Operation Aurora
Operation Aurora was a series of cyber attacks conducted by advanced persistent threats such as the Elderwood Group based in Beijing, China, with ties to the People's Liberation Army. First publicly disclosed by Google on January 12, 2010, in ...
, a series of coordinated cyber-attacks on Google
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and other American companies.
References
Living people
Danish artists
1973 births
Danish people of Icelandic descent
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