Memories of the Future at
@newmuseum today:
The exhibition focuses on artists’ ongoing exploration of what it means to be human in the face of sweeping technological change.
It explores traces - a diagonal history of the past 100 years through the work of more than 200 artists, writers, architects, filmmakers, highlighting key moments that shaped new conceptions of humanity and visions for its possible futures.
We were discussing it with friends, and I keep thinking about this ability of living in the “cloud”: soft, intellectual, spiritual - and transforming it into physical experience, and then back again. Deconstructing it, letting these physical experiences influence other systems.
This duality - being a particle and a wave at the same time,
being the body and the soul at the same time,
and connecting those through the brain, through algorithms, through reasoning - feels very real right now.
Values and morals are guardian rails, prompted by optimism and creativity.
Fun fact: “Memories of the Future” has been the header of my Twitter for almost 10 years.
I first saw it in Seoul, at the
@leeummuseumofart , and it really struck me: as if someone described in a couple of words what I’ve always been thinking about.
And now it feels more relevant than ever
🤍