METAMORPHOSIS #5 | DIGITAL VIDEO WALL
Metamorphosis is the screening programme, curated by Gemma Fantacci, currently on view on the Metronom's Digital Video Wall (DVW). The unique location of the DVW allows 24-hour viewing from the street, transforming it into an urban intervention, a way to redesign and change the street's image.
Metamorphosis is the theme chosen for the fifth edition of the DVW, which focuses on the visual and conceptual investigation carried out by several artists at the intersection of artificial intelligence, bots, algorithms, virtual and gaming environments. The series unfolds across multiple thematic threads, exploring how the new frontiers of technology shape human dynamics and how they constantly redefine our relationship with machines and technology.
Hardly Working (2022), created by the Austrian artist collective Total Refusal, is a 4 channel video installation. The artwork focuses on the labor of four different NPCs, non-playable characters that populate hyper real worlds to create the appearance of normality and that usually fade into the background of video games. In this artwork, their work becomes a pure performance, carried out for its own sake.
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Hardly Working | Total Refusal
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From June 18 to July 18, 2024 | h24
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