"The HOBO projects bring flaneurism to cyberspace. In the society of surveillance capitalism, services such as Google Street View commodify human living space by turning it into a browsable stream of hyper-images scroll. Repeating gestures of a decadent flaneur online for the past few years, James Hoff has been sliding fast-forward through the monstrous space-image, manipulating it with VJ glitch tools. With this, he endorses the politically subversive edge of his glitchy aesthetics. He uses live transmission and digital distortion to expose catastrophic events, which happened in places mapped by Google car cameras."