Martin Tomek operates in the spaces between things: between street art and digital technology, between public space and screen, between analogue glitch and VFX compositing. Based in Prague, he works across wheat-paste street art, guerrilla urbanism, VJing and analog glitch art, and is currently a graduate student at the Center for Audiovisual Studies at FAMU, one of Europe’s most respected film and media arts schools.
His research sits at an intriguing intersection: the ecology of attention, the appropriation of public space, and the détournement of digital technologies. In other words, how we look, where we look, and what happens when someone quietly rewires the environment around us.
At Kinomural he’s showing Footprint.
A website loads in three seconds. In that time, dozens of requests leave your browser, most of them going to companies you never chose to contact.
Footprint makes these transmissions visible. Websites appear as small nodes. Trackers grow larger with each connection. Google, Meta, Amazon: they connect everything. Every click follows the same pattern. Trackers map behaviour into profiles. Profiles are sold. The service is free because we are the product.
The work is the antithesis of Spider, a related piece where data flows toward the user. Here, data flows away. Same network, inverted. The tools are open source: the infrastructure of observation, turned into evidence.
