Pixels Fest Digital Utopia
Yeltsin Center Gallery, Yekaterinburg, RussiaCurator: Anna Titovets Intektra
Artists: Banz & Bowinkel, Mária Júdová & Andrej Boleslavský, Marc Lee
Yeltsin Center, Yekaterinburg
Yeltsin Center, Yekaterinburg
Yeltsin Center, Yekaterinburg
Pixels Fest 2019–2020
The theme: «Digital Utopias»
Global technologization of the planet, introduction of algorithms and machines at all levels of our everyday life is often perceived pessimistically, and further scenarios of the evolution of human lives, society and planet in general, proposed by philosophers and journalists, often look horrendous.
But there may be another, utopian, alternative and imaginary vision of the future. The word “Utopia” in our case means that we encourage the artists to reflect both on “positive” ideas and speculative theories related to technological future.
Exhibited Artwork
10.000 Moving Cities - Same but Different, VR (Virtual Reality)
Interactive Net- and Telepresence-Based Installation10.000 Moving Cities - Same but Different deals with urbanization and globalization in the digital age. The user moves through visual worlds posted publicly by others on social networks such as YouTube, Flickr or Twitter. Here these personal impressions are streamed in real time like windows to our changing world. The viewer participates in the social movements of our time and makes a virtual journey more …
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