Real Virtuality: Creating the next normal with the crutches of technology
We are blaming it on the virus. But it seems, in hindsight, as if we were anticipating this moment in time, when we could be forced to withdraw from other fellow beings. The proof is the technologies and devices we invented. On the surface, they may have seemed to be about more sociability, but it was always harbouring its invisible other, the asociability of it all.
Curated By: Madhu Kapparath
EXPENSIVE DAYS, SINGAPORE
Blockchain entrepreneur Vignesh Sundaresan, also known by his pseudonym MetaKovan, shows the digital artwork ‘Everydays: The First 5,000 Days’ by artist Beeple at his home in Singapore. In March, the programmer bought the world’s most expensive NFT for $69.3 million, highlighting how virtual work is establishing itself as a new creative genre
