INFOSCIETY (2021)

Media installation

Chelsea College of Arts

Digital graphics, print, lightboxes, metal chains and scaffolding.
Dimensions variable

Soundtrack, duration 9:34

 

“Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. ... The Goliath of totalitarianism will be brought down by the David of the microchip.”

 

― Ronald Reagan

 

​INFOSCIETY is a term coined by the author, which is a fusion of two words - information and society

 

INFOSCIETY is a metaphorical congregation of representatives of the information society, which we all are at the current moment in human history

 

Information is ubiquitous.  We cannot escape from it. We are overwhelmed by it. It changes us and the way we perceive the world around us. We are not ourselves anymore. The images of the digitized world, changed beyond recognition, look at us inquiringly in an attempt to comprehend the new reality. The reality, where Information is king, god, weapon

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