The adversarial research agency.
We investigate vulnerability — in code, in institutions, and in people.
Pwnshow works at the complex intersection of technology and society, producing investigations that function simultaneously as security research, as policy evidence, and as public culture. With the adversary's tools. To the standard of evidence. In the language of art.
Investigations
Empirical, adversarial research into how systems fail — from cryptographic faults to zero-day markets to open-weight AI. Peer-reviewed, longitudinal, consequential.
Explore Investigations →Governance
Two decades advising the European institutions. We translate technical reality into workable rules — standards, evaluation, and policy built on ground truth, not abstraction.
Explore Governance →Studio
Exhibitions, images, instruments. We make exposure visible — because a society cannot govern what it cannot see.
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Where our work has appeared
Our work has appeared at NATO CyCon, the RSA Conference, ETSI, FOSDEM, FDTC/CHES, and in the proceedings of international security conferences — and at the National Portrait Gallery (London), Ars Electronica, and the Bangkok Art Biennale. It has shaped the EU's General-Purpose AI Code of Practice and has been profiled by ABC, The Register, and TechCrunch