How not to be seen. A Fucking Didactic Educational .mov File

“A sly parody of an instructional video (the first part of the title is from a Monty Python sketch). Each of the work’s four sections outlines some tongue-in-cheek strategies to avoid being seen: hiding in plain sight, shrinking down to a unit smaller than a pixel, living in a gated community, and being female and over 50 years old.” Leora Morinis How Not to Be Seen—a video by artist and critic Hito Steyerl—presents five lessons in invisibility. As titles that divide the video into distinct but interrelated sections, these lessons include how to: 1. Make something invisible for a camera, 2. Be invisible in plain sight, 3. Become invisible by becoming a picture, 4. Be invisible by disappearing, and 5. Become invisible by merging into a world made of pictures. - MOMA