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● 09/05/2023
“If, like Palantir, your hands appear dirty or at least your image seems tarnished, one redeeming way to attract public attention would be to sponsor an art exhibition. The principle, epitomized by the gas company Gazprom or the pharmaceutical company Sackler, is also known as ‘Art Washing.’”
– Five artists (and 600 additional signatories), in an open letter chastising the Leipzig exhibition “Dimensions: Digital art since 1859” for accepting sponsorship from unscrupulous American surveillance software contractor Palantir
Artwashing Leipzig
● 21/04/2023
“Where Big Data is merely aestheticized, a new court art is created, in whose flickering lights you can ‘talk about e-cars’ with politicians and lobbyists undisturbed, as entrepreneur Frank Thelen enthusiastically posted.”
– Writer and arts editor Niklas Maak, condemning the largely inoffensive, un-critical works on view at “Dimensions: Digital art since 1859,” a Leipzig exhibition curated by notoriously pro-business cultural manager Walter Smerling and sponsored by American surveillance software contractor Palantir [quote translated from German]
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
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