Ztohoven identity cards exhibit impounded

Police in Prague impounded an exhibit by the guerrilla art group Ztohoven that displayed falsified citizen identification cards. The police also detained one of the members of the group, who goes by the alias Roman Týc, in order to determine his identity. He was later released. The largely anonymous collective unveiled their latest social critique earlier this week in the form of an exhibition of 12 falsified IDs with which they had travelled, voted and even married over the last six months. The project, called “Citizen K” (a play on the word “ID card” in Czech) was ostensibly intended to show expose the ease with which personal information can be misused. Ztohoven came to public attention three years ago when they hacked into a Czech Television weather broadcast and superimposed an atomic explosion.