(Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso, David Toro)

They have been collaborating as DIS since 2010 DIS is a collaborative project based in New York and consisting of Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso, David Toro, working together as an artistic and curatorial collective dealing with a wide range of media and platforms, exploiting the methods of production, use and dissemination of content online (DIS Magazine, DISimages, DISown or the dis.art streaming channel). Over time, DIS has enhanced and amplified the possibilities and capabilities of art and its role in the artistic, commercial, educational, and public spheres—folding all into one. DIS’s participation in the 58^th October Salon takes the form of a site-specific installation composed of a charred wood-paneled wall used as a framework and immersive setting for a scorched ATM machine and a set of three diptych giclée prints, connecting key events in the financial crisis and Gossip Girl episode plots which aired the same day. The piece may be read as a continuation of the Public Service Announcement project, started in 2018 and developed through a series of videos (A Good Crisis, Obama Baroque, and UBI: The Straight Truvada) that reflected on the trifecta that was the 2008 Financial Crisis, Obama’s presidency, and the rapid expansion of the Internet. “As our homes, property, and increasingly our bodies, are offered up as collateral to the tyranny of financialization, it’s necessary to ask: how did we get here?”