2023/04/21

Cultural Critic Calls Out Insidiously Inoffensive Digital Art Exhibition Sponsored by Surveillance Software Giant Palantir

● 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
Metadata: People: , / Locations: / Contributors:
$40 USD