Full Name
Barnaby Francis a.k.a. Bill Posters
Job Title
Artist-Researcher, Author and Activist
Speaker Bio
Working under the pseudonym Bill Posters, Barnaby Francis is an artist-researcher, author and activist who is interested in making disinformation into art. His works often interrogate truth, trust, persuasion and power relations that exist in the public space and online. He works collaboratively across the arts, sciences and advocacy fields on conceptual, sculptural, new media, net, installation and synthetic art. In 2019 his synthetic (deep fake) artworks released on Instagram featuring Mark Zuckerberg went viral leading to global press coverage and unexpected — and contradictory — official responses from Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. His latest project, Eco-Bot.Net, is currently exposing climate change disinformation and corporate greenwashing on social media during COP26.
