ALGOFFSHORE - The Art of Automating Tax Evasion branding Alaïa’s creative director Pieter Mulier

Alaïa’s creative director Pieter Mulier visits artist Mark Manders’ studio in Ronse for the first time

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The artist and theorist Bettina Lockemann provides an approach to the medium from a research perspective: considering the photobook as an independent subject of art theories

ALGOFFSHORE - The Art of Automating Tax Evasion branding Alaïa’s creative director Pieter MulierThe ALGOFFSHORE series of flowcharts (RYBN. ORG, 2017 2021) presents five ready to use strategies for evading taxes or social and environmental obligations. En passant, these flowcharts document how contemporary financial engineering allows multinationals and enterprises to optimize profits, render transactions opaque, maximize anonymity, and circumvent all kinds of regulations hindering the smooth circulationand ultimately the accumulationof capital.