https://newart.city/show/watched-over-by-machines-of-loving-grace
2022
Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace is an exercise of imagining myself and imagining my family in a futuristic scenario. What scenario would this be where we could get there? What would we have to do? What sacrifices would we have to undergo? Based upon the poem by Richard Brautigan, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, and inspired by the ideas of the book The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, by Shoshana Zuboff, the exhibition works on the idea of a dystopian Brazilian scenario, where the right to privacy has been exploited by the digital future. Instead of a cyberpunk reality, the experience tries to idealize a cyberFUNK reality, more fit to Brazilian paradigms.
Henrique Fagundes
Brazil
Henrique Fagundes (Canoas, Brazil), multimedia artist and art educator. In his investigations as well as in his educational propositions, intends to think about the use of new media usage as a political tool, as well as poetic, reflecting them as instruments of emancipation of new narratives and contexts. Lately has turned to Virtual reality and Augmented reality as sensitive expressions about autofiction, memory and affectionate spaces.