Suzanne Treister

In 1995 Suzanne Treister created a character named Rosalind Brodsky, a delusional time traveler who believes herself to be working at the Institute of Militronics and Advanced Time Interventionality. Web sites, interactive cd roms, photography, video, drawings, paintings and constructions document in a seemingly journalistic manner her contributions to time travel research. The project, Hexen2039 is presented here in its internet art form. Hexen2039 charts Brodsky‚s research towards the development of new audio hypnosis technologies for the British Military and makes links between conspiracy theories, occult groups, Chernobyl, the birth of Samuel Goldwyn, the U.S. film industry, British Intelligence agencies, and the U.S. Military Academy, West Point. Treister’s work offers us an inverted, riotous version of a sociopolitical history that stands in kaleidoscopic opposition to the homogenized, narrow flatland of the capitalist march forward.

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