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With The Glomar Response, NOME presents James Bridle’s first solo show in Germany.

Immigration, politics and surveillance, as well as the intersections of technology with older forms of imperial power constitute the main axes of the show.

The ‘Glomar response’ was formulated in 1975 by the U.S. Government, and refers to the prerogative of power to “neither confirm nor deny” the existence of information. In the shadow of this statement is all of the uncertainty of contemporary life: the ever-increasing opacity of political and social processes accelerated by computer code and secret law is …