Ben Solo

MFA MJCC, 2025 

I am an artist, engineer, and hacker. My work is built on precision, ingenuity, and system manipulation—digital, mechanical, or social. At the intersection of technology and art, I merge code, circuitry, and fabrication into acts of resistance.

I study systems to reprogram them. My influences include engineers, inventors, and tacticians. I approach my work like a reverse-engineered blueprint, dismantling and rebuilding ideas through electronics, 3D printing, and material science. The process is both technological and tactile—merging digital fabrication with hands-on intervention.

Technology isn’t a barrier to craftsmanship—it extends it. I use automation, coding, and digital tools not to replace skill but to go beyond physical limits. I fabricate components through 3D printing, then refine them by hand—soldering, reshaping, intervening where precision alone falls short. My process is iterative, evolving through a dialogue between machine and maker.

To hack is to deconstruct and repurpose. My art does the same—rewriting narratives, reconfiguring structures, and reclaiming tools. I reconstruct lost histories, critique technology’s role in art, and challenge systems that determine who creates and who is remembered. I make work for those denied access, told art wasn’t for them. My pieces are not decorative—they are disruptions. Acts of reclamation. Declarations of presence.