"Simon Denny’s work has explored how twenty-first-century data-based capitalism is finally undoing any remaining balance between labor and capital, undermining the nation-state model, threatening the viability of fiat currencies, and accelerating the arrival of sentient machines likely to supplant us as the world’s dominant form of intelligence. Whereas the artist’s previous projects sprang from specific contemporary instances of the handling and exploitation of information—Edward Snowden’s leaks, the US Department of Justice’s shutdown of Kim Dotcom’s site Megaupload—this time he took his cues from Crawford and Joler’s argument that both our relentless obsession with new technologies and the greed of the megacompanies that build them are not only enabling those companies to harvest huge swaths of data from us but also doing untold damage to the planet. Consequently, at MONA, Denny has created a three-part waking nightmare, addressing the exploitative practices of Amazon in one room, targeting the increasing automation of Australia’s massive mining industry in a second, and, in the final space, inviting the museum’s curators to assemble an exhibition of figurative sculpture (including two of his own works) on the theme of labor and automation."