Jakob Boeskov
Boeskov is an artist, author and award-winning filmmaker based in New York. His work has been shown in museums such as New Museum and Stedelijk Museum. He is best known for infiltrating a Chinese weapons fair with his ID Sniper project.
Jakob Boeskov
- Name
- Jakob S.
- Born
- 23 March 1973
- Birthplace
- Elsinore, Denmark
- Known for
- Conceptual art, film and music.
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Denmark
- Occupation
- artist · film director · screenwriter
- Education
- Helsingør Gymnasium
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Boeskov is an artist, author and award-winning filmmaker based in New York. His work has been shown in museums such as New Museum and Stedelijk Museum. He is best known for infiltrating a Chinese weapons fair with his ID Sniper project.
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• Name — Jakob S. Boeskov • Born — 23 March 1973 • Birthplace — Elsinore, Denmark • Known for — Conceptual art, film and music.
ID Sniper rifle
ID Sniper rifle
In 2002, Boeskov and industrial designer Kristian von Bengtson created a fake hi-tech weapon called the ID Sniper rifle. This fictive weapon could shoot off GPS chips into demonstrators so that the police later could locate them and "apply the punishment." Boeskov brought drawings of this weapon to a weapons fair in Beijing, China, where the weapon received positive reactions from real weapons dealers, politicians and policemen. Boeskov described the project "like being a sci-fi writer caught in his own novel" The project received much press and caused Boeskov to receive purchase orders from various security agencies from around the world.
Other work
Other work
In 2009 Boeskov wrote and directed the film Empire North which won the 2010 Danish:DOX Award at the CPH:DOX film festival. In 2010 Boeskov collaborated with Creative Time in New York with a video created in Nigeria together with director Teco Benson. In 2025 Boeskov published the novel Wild Victim Unit.
Fiction
Fiction
• Wild Victim Unit (Synth Books, 2025)
Non-Fiction
Non-Fiction
• ID Sniper (A-Mock Book, 2015) • Face Jager (A-Mock Book, 2016)
Filmography
Filmography
• Empire North (Interpretation Productions, 2010) • Roy Camera (Ada Lauder Films, 2022)
Discography
• Symbolic And Real Police (2017, S.I. Records) • Lord Algorithm (2022, TapeLore) • I Think I Scan EP (2012, w. Timothy DeWit of Gang Gang Dance, Pork Salad Press)
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