Dante_altRight
Collection:UAL Art Collection
Date: 2021
Artist: Vince Ibay (British Filipino)
Dimensions:
28 sec
Medium: Digital video
Object number: UAC 1059
DescriptionVince studied BA Drawing at Camberwell College of Arts, together with a diploma at the UAL Creative Computing Institute. He says:
'The global pandemic has transported more of our lives into the digital realm and I continue the exploration of digitized spaces and the early ethics and cultures the internet has incubated. Some of these are as follows; surveillance capitalism on social platforms, the rise of alt-right from the culture wars, and the new influencer economy. The internet is a powerful and democratic space which I analyse on the basis of the blurred borders surrounding the online individual and the utopian ideals that it originated from. I try to address and ask questions about the liberating capabilities of the internet being used to influence dependency upon it. The problematic operations of data extraction on online platforms, and its direction, is a discussion I would like to open up with to the new generation of digital natives'.
'The global pandemic has transported more of our lives into the digital realm and I continue the exploration of digitized spaces and the early ethics and cultures the internet has incubated. Some of these are as follows; surveillance capitalism on social platforms, the rise of alt-right from the culture wars, and the new influencer economy. The internet is a powerful and democratic space which I analyse on the basis of the blurred borders surrounding the online individual and the utopian ideals that it originated from. I try to address and ask questions about the liberating capabilities of the internet being used to influence dependency upon it. The problematic operations of data extraction on online platforms, and its direction, is a discussion I would like to open up with to the new generation of digital natives'.