Facebook's "Meta" offers a second digitally integrated life to its users. However, we already have a Second Life. Is Mark Zuckerberg just trying to implement a teenage fantasy into all of us?
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Besides the strange dreams, there really was no indication for Nathan to send himself bizarre one sentence messages and he did not have a roommate, so this couldn’t be a prank. Additionally, if he really was sleep-walking last night, wouldn’t he have sent himself messages about Carol Baskins feeding her husband to the tigers? It didn’t make sense.
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How can sound explore themes such as gender inequality, sexuality, personal experiences, or collective traumas related to post-colonization? If we take a look at these three performances where the sound became a tool for staying with the trouble - we will probably get closer to the answers.
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In the second episode of Places we love, you will get to see Aurianne Chevandier, Justina Špeirokaitė, and Márton Zalka adding their thoughts to Dejan Klement's mirror for collective self-reflection.
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Choose your battles, I mean luxuries, wisely, and maybe one day we will meet in a world where our worth is not measured by material things, social status, or how precisely we follow another man's traditions.
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“I believe in the principles of democracy and realize that it can only work with a good education. In this case, it is necessary to be awake and aware of the system’s complexity and to choose means of expression that also reflect the historical context of the territory in which I work. If I subsequently present it in another country, different perceptions occur in the viewer, and the work, by relocating, acquires a new dimension. Context, always important, is what should be available here.”
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In this issue of his adventures and reflections on the good old Internet, Pedro wonders: is it time to make webcams grainy again?
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She was ecstatic when she was offered this job. Finally, a position that completely aligned with her values as a human rights protector. Her years of unpaid work had finally been compensated. At last, the emptiness, the gaping vacuum, that she would feel at the centre of her chest most nights before dozing off to sleep, would be filled. A rewarding job! What more could she want?
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As Florentina Holzinger devised her own Divine Comedy, at Kunsthalle, Tscherner also creates an alternative story about the great Narcissus. Compared to Holzingers’s work, the performance is also based on a narrative story, mythological background: Mirror, mirror concept based on the fairy tale of Snow White, and on the Greek myth of Narcissus, both stories connected with mirrors and virtual images. Narcissus in this way conducts a concentrate of his own virtual image, as it refers back to his role in Greek mythology where he eventually falls in love with his own reflection in a pool of water, staring at it for the remainder of his life.
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Places we love exist only in us is the opening sentence in a poem by Ivan V. Lalic. This video series is a project where I ask different people to tell their stories about belonging. Every episode contains 3 art workers of younger generations having creative control over how they want to be filmed, where, and what they want to speak about. In this episode, you will see Miloš Vučićević, Kata Martincsák, and Eugénie Desmedt trying to share their thoughts and build a mirror for collective self-reflection.
A period for contemplation and the opportunity to let go of what no longer serves. Like the way we pride ourselves, we no longer need to abide by Nature's rules. Is it really progress if we use all the technological innovation to increase productivity? If only we, as a society, could live more attuned to these natural rhythms. Instead of surrendering to the early sunset with the rest of the ecosystem, we choose to live inside a tampon commercial, celebrating self-exploitation on a daily basis.
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“The lives that we live in these marginalized areas can be very closely connected with other people who inhabit other areas. We may not share the same spaces, but we certainly live in the same utopias. Hospitable, the name itself was supposed to encourage the authors to think about what it actually means, and from the position of an artist who comes from abroad, in what way he would manage to find ourselves in it, does that utopia exist in which way and does that hospitality still shape some prejudices among locals, in the city or the villages on the slopes of Užice.”
If one accepts Florian Bocksrucker's invitation into his modularly synthesized soundscapes, he takes the listener to uplifting, danceable realms via spherical, sustaining meditations and grounded rhythms. A journey between curious improvisation and controlled experiment in an enveloping electrified roller coaster of emotions.
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