German-born Anja Kirschner and Greek-born David Pano (both now live and work in London) have been collaborating on dense, conceptual projects, spanning multiple genres, since the mid-2000s. Using computer-generated imagery, video, and installation, the duo examines how various technologies—motion capture, currency, routinization, and others—change the ways in which we perceive the world, other people, popular culture, history, and literary tropes. The duo is particularly interested in the nature of performance, use of surrogates and actors, as well as narrative construction on the whole.

Their 2012 video and installation Ultimate Substance, for example, drew from philosophy, mathematics, and ritual in order to explore the effect the invention of money had on the development of Western thought and civilization. Filmed in and nearby Athens’s Numismatic Museum, as well as in the vicinity of an ancient Greek mining region, the video addressed themes relating to the passage of time, archeology, economy, and history.

Recent solo exhibitions by Kirschner and Pano include shows at the Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) in Berlin, Artists Space in New York, the Museo de Arte Contemporanea Vigo, Museu Maritim in Barcelona, Nassauischer Kunstverein in Wiesbaen, and Kunsthalle Oslo. Kirschner and Panos were included in a group exhibition at the Palais de Toyko and have received awards including the Jarman Award in 2011 and the FLAMIN Award in 2009. They have also released two LPs of experimental electronic music.