Digital Düsseldorf. There may not be too many things to love Düsseldorf for. However, we like to not think “Köproll“, but Becherklasse. And then of course, there’s Elodie Evers who set up something rather smart at Kunsthalle starting this friday:
The Smart New World exhibition focuses on digitalization—the dissolution and transformation of analogue information into digital codes for the purpose of storing and processing them—and the radically fundamental changes it has brought about on society. The invited artists not only find inspiration for their pictorial worlds in the rapid developments taking place in the field of digital technology but they above all also reflect upon their cultural, social and political dimension.
With works by: Xavier Cha, Simon Denny, Aleksandra Domanović, Omer Fast, Christoph Faulhaber, Kenneth Goldsmith, International Necronautical Society, Korpys/Löffler, Trevor Paglen, Laura Poitras, Tabor Robak, Santiago Sierra, Taryn Simon
Their diverse pieces likewise deal perceptively, critically and humorously with the possibilities, visions and also dangers of digitalization. In the process, they examine the effects of economic and state censorship, which constitute an attack on democratic knowledge production and the private sphere of each and every individual, as well as the impact of the Internet on our structures of thinking and knowing.
We’ve thought about the risks of digital before earlier this year during the CCC’s 30th anniversary. So, leave your smartphone at home on friday and have an offline experience here.
