Real Virtuality: Creating the next normal with the crutches of technology
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.
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9/18
DIGITAL DRAG, ITALY
At an atelier filled with shelves overflowing with wigs, feathers and hundreds of stage costumes, Karma B prepares for her livestreamed performance on StageIt. The aim of the first online drag festival had been to allow drag and LGBT performers who have had live shows cancelled, to perform for their fans