2025 | United States | Short

Things Don’t Have to Be Like This: A Conversation About Digital Technology & Contemporary Art

  • English - 11 mins
  • Director | J.M. Harper
  • Writer | -
  • Producer | Scott Lane

STATUS: Completed

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Over coffee at a Brooklyn cafe, artists and friends Morehshin Allahyari, American Artist, and Mimi Ọnụọha gather to explore the fertile creative ground that emerges when technology, knowledge, power, and identity collide. From American Artist’s interrogation of social media and surveillance technologies to Ọnụọha's scrutiny of the gaps in the data sets that fuel our information systems to Allahyari’s resistance to the creep of digital colonialism, these three emerging artists offer new ways to navigate our digital world through art and open up the possibilities for positive change.

technology digital activism surveillance data gaps digital
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Art21
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