In 2000, Mack served as production assistant in Antarctica on the IMAX film The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition,[3] and began shooting photography shortly thereafter.
[10][11] Mack states that “The exhibition is an invitation to contemplate our relationship to our devices and the surrounding world while inspiring the introspection needed to prevent the loss of our humanity.”[12] Using AR artwork from Pokémon GO spliced with his own photography, Mack seeks to highlight what he coined the “Inverse Universe,” at the GLEX Summit 2022 [13] a dimension, he states, where “truth becomes illusion, illusion becomes truth; the digital becomes the physical and the physical becomes digital.
Spanning more than 17,000 square feet, the exhibition features more than 65 artworks and a customized app which guides visitors through a gamified psychological exploration framed by the artifice of the Pokémon Go interface.
[2] The exhibition included a program of talks and events featuring Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen; a conversation with Yuval Noah Harari,[15] author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind; a panel hosted by Stanford University Professors Rob Reich, Jeremey Weinstein and Mehran Sahami to discuss their book, System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot; a panel on the State of Social Media featuring NYU’s Jonathan Haidt, Center for Humane Technology’s Tristan Harris, NYC school commissioner David Banks, and much more.
[4] In addition to the anniversary, given the emphasis in the international press on ongoing violence between the state and narcoterrorism, a need existed to depict a more balanced and holistic impression of the country.