What kind of worlds are being generated by contemporary digital pop culture?

FANtasia – Shared Lands

Fabian Mosele

3’ video loop, projection on wall, one inkjet print 105×185 cm mounted on a hardboard panel, various stickers

Welcome to FANtasia, shared lands. Ruled by passion and creative freedom, these worlds are based on our pop culture and inhabited by derivative characters.

As kids, we grew attached to the stories we all watched, thus sharing a culture that connects us on a very emotional level. This bond is easily shared on the web, where both amateur and professional artists contribute to this culture with their own derivative works – Works that break the rules given by big companies, thus enabling total creative freedom. The relationship between producer and consumer is transformed, shifting from a passive to a more active one. The stories that were once linear and untouchable become now universes that are constantly changing and open for us to explore.

A project made in the course

ELIZA & Frankenstein – Techtopian Image Narratives

Studio IMAGE | BA Major in Art Both enthusiasm and skepticism about technological developments have always been a powerful driving force of cultural discourse and practice. The question of how far artists can not only be inspired or repelled by technological developments but can also contribute to current social discourses has been discussed recently in numerous events, such as the symposium “Guest, Ghost, Host: Machine!” organized by Hans Ulrich Obrist and John Brockman (Serpentine Marathon, 2017). How do we individually as well as a society relate to technological progress? Will “culture surrender to technology” as claimed by Neil Postman in his publication Technopoly in 1992?
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