Recent short paper discussing the digital divide, from Timur Si Qin’s Metamaterialism to Evan & Andre Lenox’s Placelessness.
“The basic question of whether it is really there or not is a philosophical one, with much historic precedent from the writings of Plato to Baudrillard and beyond. In the end whether it was locked to the network, or locked to the world, or to both - it depends on what you call the world. Or which world you are talking about. Assuming there is one world that encompasses many facets, art in this domain shares a great deal with the mythological. In seeing and sensing things beyond what is apparent in open public space. The only difference now is that the illusion has developed to the point that the distance between the real world and the superimposed fantasy world is narrowing in ways central to the development of portable technology. And with it, so are our definitions of place.”
