Solipsism and Sabotage: Throwing a wrench into the endless doomscroll
Frankly, I’ve spent too much time online in my youth. That only increased after graduating off a cliff into the latest “once in a lifetime” global crisis. The modern internet can feel lonely, oppressive, unchangeable. However, the pandemic-fuelled translation of almost all facets of life onto the net offers a unique circumstance for art and artists. The internet has become the master and the master’s tools; it is a platform for hosting and producing critical digital art, and the very object of critique. As always, artists respond to their times. They are intervening into existing digital systems, proposing counternarratives and sabotaging the paths of capital.
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