Questioning the reality laid forth by mass media outlets and capitalist ventures is top of the mind in our AI-careening, algorithmic advertising-fed contemporary visual landscape, but, as this exhibit ...
Every reasonably aware person of our time is aware of the obvious fact that art can no longer be justified as a superior activity, or even as a compensatory activity to which one might honorably ...
Détournement, the reuse of preexisting artistic elements in a new ensemble, has been a constantly present tendency of the contemporary avant-garde, both before and since the formation of the SI. The ...
The exhibition explores the development of the détournement style over the last five decades and how this strategy has impacted visual communication. Featured are historic and iconic situationist ...
TV-show writers, pop culture purveyors and peddlers of general stuff-we-don’t-need didn’t take long to latch onto the Occupy brand. The language of the 99 percent is popping up in sitcoms and terrible ...
In 1967, French political theorist Guy Debord published the book The Society of the Spectacle, which argued that the expansion of capitalism and mass media fostered a passive lifestyle. Everyday life ...