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Phoenix666 writes:

An Italian artist wants to make the architects of the global police state famous:

You've heard of Edward Snowden. And the name Keith Alexander probably rings a bell. But what about James Comey? As head of the FBI, he pressed for a law that would require American smartphone companies to decrypt citizens' phones on request. Ever heard of Avril Haines? She was deputy director of the CIA when that agency was engaged in many of the activities Snowden exposed.

Italian artist Paolo Cirio has been stenciling "unauthorized" portraits of these folks, and six other high-ranking officials at three-letter agencies, on walls throughout cities around the world. This rogue's gallery of spooks and spies grin unwittingly from posters and murals in places more typically reserved for television stars and lingerie models.
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The resulting portraits look like pop silkscreens from the 1960s, an eye-candy aesthetic that belies their serious undertone. "These are portraits of high-ranking war generals, the Napoleons of today, somehow marking their historical role in attempting to build a dangerous cyber-empire," Cirio says. But beyond bringing these people out of the shadows, the artists wants them to know that, despite their job titles, they're as digitally vulnerable and overexposed as the rest of us.

The Japanese have a practice of shunning or ostracism called Mura-hachibu, whereby the whole village stops having anything to do with you. Could it work here?