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
STARRY NIGHT-2, CANADA
Created by French artistic directors Annabelle Mauger and Julien Baron, the massive projections create a space where people experience van Gogh’s art in ways unlike traditional museums. The brushstrokes appear several feet wide, as original canvasses are expanded and fragmented, then projected onto the walls and floor in unusual shapes to emphasise the mesmerising exaggerations and distortions of van Gogh’s work
