** Jörg Colberg, On Art and Neo Liberal Society**
From The Merge by Sara Brincher Galbiati, Peter Helles Eriksen, and Tobias Selnaes Markussen
… watch this video demonstrating the current capabilities of robots created by Boston Dynamics…
… then read this…
… and if you need more encouragement, this…
_ But when the sum of it all — the (art) community — largely fails to respond to all the various challenges to our societies, democracies, and well being, then I’m left to wonder where it all went wrong._
Maybe it’s simply the fact that the world of art has become too enmeshed with the very people who are responsible for the challenges I just mentioned. Why or how? Simply follow the money.1
… the article is significant to me less for the book it reviews, which it pans, than for the conversation it starts, which to me is, wtf are we doing?…
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Jorg Colberg, Into the Technological Sublime ↩︎