Anthony Aziz and Sammy Cucher have been collaborating since the early 1990s, when they met as graduate students at the San Francisco Art Institute. Their large-scale, digitally manipulated images and sculptural projects explore the tenuous relationship between technology and the human body.

In Dystopia (1994) the artists created a series of digitally altered "portraits" depicting individuals in a society where personal identity has become obsolete. With the erasure of a subject's eyes, nose, or mouth, their work suggests an evolutionary change resulting from technological advancement and the decreasing need for face-to-face interactions among humans.

Aziz + Cucher received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2002, the first time the award had been given to artists working with photography and digital media. They subsequently created Passage, a 3-D multimedia work, at the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam