Not exact matches
While Meckseper's earlier vitrine works commented on contemporary
consumer culture using the shop window as an example and focus point for civic unrest and protest
in our late
capitalist society, her current works allude to the political dimension of early modernist display architecture and design between World War I and II
in Weimar Germany.
Using found objects and tools made readily available by the Internet, as well as drawing from a unique sensibility influenced by participation
in online communities and virtual games, Bicknell - Knight's work explores the divergent methods by which
consumer capitalist culture permeates both online and offline
society.
Online and offline surveillance accompanied by the
consumer capitalist culture within today's
society are the main issues surrounding his work,
in association with current and future utopian environments, the continued automation of our daily lives
in relation to the internet of things and the various cultures associated with online communities.
While questioning the basic assumption that one can not be «present»
in a
capitalist society unless one exists as a
consumer group, DAM!
The works
in this exhibition examine the human experience of pain, pleasure and desire as well as the aesthetic manipulation of
consumers in late
capitalist societies.
Cooper's artistic practice, consisting largely of computer - generated (CG) imagery
in both video and digital print form, critiques the ubiquity of the flawless CG female
in our
consumer capitalist society and the labour used to create these glossy digital bodies that are almost obligatory
in today's mass - advertising campaigns.
Dorland's work questions the deeper meaning beneath our
consumer - driven lifestyles while exposing the inherent decay
in a
capitalist society driven by instant gratification and planned obsolescence.
Deeply invested
in the techniques and history of photography, Williams is just as profoundly committed to contemporary art as a forum for intellectual inquiry and thoughtful opposition — resisting, for example, a
capitalist society in which photographs typically act as agents of
consumer spectacle.