Our disenchantment with the internet is a fact. Yet again, enlightenment does not bring us liberation but depression.
Image source: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/83/141287/overcoming-internet-disillusionment-on-the-principles-of-meme-design/
Among the numerous works featured in the Ars Electronica Festival of 2021, German artist collective, Laokoon, published an online documentary film, titled Made to Measure, which discusses the potential influence of people’s digital footprints that they have left in the virtual world.
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The artist SHIH I-Shan was impacted by some harsh reality during her 2018 CREATORS project in Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab, “The Anti-domination Chain in the Era of Face Swiping” (《刷臉時代的反統治鏈》). (Image courtesy of LAI Ho-Wang)