Jakob Dwight’s Autonomous Prism is a collection of sixteen videos taking the form of a glitchy animation derived from a piece of found video artefacts. Dwight has created three digital editions from the series exclusively for Sedition. The video artefacts are manipulated by an algorithm into imagery that can be described as coagulated lines and colours or visual noise. The work examines the idea and form of the mask together with the decontextualisation of African artefacts via museums and early Modernists – such as in Picasso's Les Desmoiselles D'Avignon – and looks at the mask as a catalyst for bringing together two worlds.

Dwight’s aleatoric “mask-form generator” has yielded thousands of unique and near-unique masks thus far. The artist calls each of the masks an analysand - referencing a wider conversation about the composition and interactions of one undergoing psychoanalysis.

The Autonomous Prism is featured in the group exhibition Disguise: Masks and Global African Art on view at Brooklyn Museum from April to September 2016.