Goodbye, World! - Looking at Art in the Digital Age av Omar Kholeif

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<b>A look at how the internet and post-millenial technologies have transformed our ways of seeing and birthed a new form of culture.</b><p>The way we see the world has changed drastically since NASA released the “blue marble” image of the earth taken by Apollo 17 in 1972. No longer a placid slow-moving orb, the world is now perceived as a hothouse of activity and hyper-connectivity that cannot keep up with its inhabitants. The internet has collectively bound human society, replacing the world as the network of all networks. In <i>Goodbye, World! Looking at Art in the Digital Age</i>, writer and curator Omar Kholeif traces the birth of a culture propagated but also consumed by this digitized network. Has the internet transformed the way we see and relate to images? How has the field of perception been altered by evolving technologies, pervasive distribution, and our interaction with screens? How have artists working in diverse contexts, from eBay auctions to augmented realit