Through his practice Marinos Houtris investigates and discusses social and political issues related to information, while addressing, more specifically, the privatisation of coding and the technological order in which information is being controlled by the vast authority. His work comments more broadly on the relationship between accessible and inaccessible information in modern society, since the familiarity in which modern man perceives information lies between the difficulty of what is simulated as ‘real’ and ‘non-real’. Houtris also investigates the ‘contribution’ of mass media in the ‘real’ and ‘non-real’ configuration of information, often enough he includes images and articles from newspapers in his work exploring furthermore how information is simulated by modern man. Additionally he questions the power of authority and the significance of classified information by incorporating inaccessible material in his projects. His practice takes a multi-layered approach to this broad range of issues through a variety of media, creating narratives; presenting and analysing at the same time, abstractions and fragments of inaccessible pieces of information.

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