Abram Stern, MFA. Ph.D., (they/he) is an artist and scholar whose work seeks out ways that institutionally situated media reveals itself. Much of this work draws from collections of government media and metadata related to surveillance and its oversight. They look closely at technical systems and make projects that operate in gaps of intelligibility. Rather than seeing these gaps as problems to be solved through technical solutionism, Stern makes work that functions in a poetic capacity to surface systemic frictions` in the rhymes and dissonances among institutions, infrastructures, formats, and techniques of sense-making.