RYBN

RYBN.ORG is a Paris-based artistic research platform founded in 1999. Operating as an “extra-disciplinary” collective, RYBN investigates complex and opaque systems — high-frequency trading algorithms, offshore finance architectures, tax evasion circuits, and communications network protocols — through interactive installations, data visualization, and networked performance. Their long-running project “Antidatamining” (ADM, 2006–ongoing) deploys live trading bots and “heretical” algorithms devised by artists on actual stock exchanges, probing the economic imbalances introduced by automated financial markets; ADM XI won the HeK Net-Based Award in 2017. “The Great Offshore” (2017–ongoing) maps the hidden infrastructure of tax havens through field research in Basel, Amsterdam, London, Malta, and Jersey. The companion project “ALGOFFSHORE” (2017–2021) produced five algorithmic flowcharts documenting strategies of offshoring and tax optimization. Together with Marie Lechner, RYBN developed the media-archaeological research project “Human Computers” (2015–2022), tracing the history of computation and labor organization from Gaspard de Prony’s 1793 calculation factory to Amazon’s Mechanical Turk; this work was published on carrier-bag.net. Their work has been shown at ZKM Karlsruhe, Centre Pompidou, HKW Berlin, La Gaîté Lyrique, transmediale, Ars Electronica, Jeu de Paume, and HMKV Dortmund, among others. Homepage: rybn.org

Selected Bibliography
RYBN.ORG. ALGOFFSHORE: The Art of Automating Tax Evasion. Eindhoven: Set Margins’ / RRose Editions, 2024.
RYBN.ORG, ed. The Great Offshore: Art, argent, souveraineté, gouvernance, colonialisme. Paris: UV Editions, 2021.