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MIT’s List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge (US) presents “List Projects 34: Brittany Nelson,” featuring new photographs and a moving-image work filmed at West Virginia’s Green Bank Observatory—a hub for SETI researchers scanning the cosmos. Drawing on Daphne du Maurier‘s Rebecca (1938) and analog photographic techniques, the American artist frames the search for extraterrestrial contact as a mirror for human longing. Nelson has likened the telescope to “an ex-girlfriend,” and the piece unfolds as a “kind of breakup narrative.”
“Bryan Johnson—the man who transfused his son’s blood, dumped his fiancé when she was diagnosed with stage III breast cancer, and takes 54 pills every morning—is poised to be a major literary inspiration of our contemporary age. The longevity bro is the Dracula we deserve.”
“Where Silicon Valley imagines itself through Middle-earth, Mars, and cyberspace, China’s tech world thinks simultaneously in terms of the jianghu.”
“Artists, with their unique attunement to material fallibility, share a kinship with Butler’s protagonist, whose condition of hyperempathy is a metaphor for the role of the artist at the end of the world: to absorb the pains and pleasures of their environs and translate them into something new.”
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