Disnovation.org is a research collective set up in Paris in 2012 that works at the interface of contemporary art, research and hacking.It was initiated by the artists Nicolas Maigret and Maria Roszkowska.Its installations, performances and publications turn eco-social issues into experimental situations around energy, ecology, economics and technological imaginaries.
The Pirate Cinema shows BitTorrent file sharing as it happens, in an arbitrary cut-up of the files being exchanged.An exhibition at Stereolux in Nantes brought together Predictive Art Bot, Blacklists and Shanzhai Archeology. The works question techno-positivism and the belief in innovation.Predictive Art Bot is an algorithm that turns media headlines into concepts for artworks.It was shown in “Perfect & Priceless” at Kate Vass Galerie in Zürich in 2018 and 2019.,Shanzhai Archeology is a collection of mobile phones made in China, whose designs and functions depart from Western standards.
Profiling The Profilers uses a custom algorithm to build psychological, cultural and political profiles of major Big Tech companies from publicly available datasets such as Wikipedia.,The 2020 exhibition “Post Growth” at iMAL in Brussels, made with Baruch Gottlieb and others, comprised six artworks that challenge dominant narratives of growth and progress.,One of them, Life Support System, grows one square meter of wheat in a closed environment while the water, light, heat and nutrients it needs are measured and displayed to the public.It was shortlisted for the Lumen Prize Futures Award in 2022.With Nicolas Nova, the collective published the book A Bestiary of the Anthropocene in 2020, an inventory of hybrid creatures of the era such as plastiglomerates, surveillance robot-dogs and anti-drone eagles.,The Max Ernst Museum and Diriyah Art Futures commissioned a video version in 2025.Eating the Sun is a series of twelve ceramic plates that places human activities within the biogeochemical flows powered by the Sun.In 2025 the collective's work entered the permanent collection of mudac in Lausanne.
