Children of Prometheus: Interview with artist Joana Moll.
Marc Garrett, curator of the current incarnation of the Children of Prometheus
exhibition at the NeMe gallery, in Cyprus, interviews artist Joana Moll about
the artwork, The Virtual Watchers, developed in collaboration with french
anthropologist Cédric Parizot.
This project began in 2010, and looks critically at an online platform group,
consisting of 203,633 volunteers surveilling the US-Mexico border, through a
social media platform, such as Facebook. The community of The Virtual Watchers
existed well before, and briefly, during, President Donald Trump’s signature
promise in 2016 to build a wall at the US southern border, to stop more
migrants crossing over onto US soil.
The project also touches on a wider online culture of attacks by bots and
trolls from clandestine right-wing groups. The interview also explores Joana
Moll’s interpretation of the Children of Prometheus exhibition, and briefly
discusses other projects such as CO2GLE, which is an attempt to visualize how
much carbon dioxide the company is emitting per second.
[https://www.furtherfield.org/children-of-prometheus-interview-with-artist-joana-mol](https://www.furtherfield.org/children-of-prometheus-interview-with-artist-joana-moll/)
Marc Garrett
Co-Founder, Co-Director, main editor for Furtherfield. Art, technology & social
change, since 1996 http://www.furtherfield.org
Furtherfield Gallery & Commons in the park. Finsbury Park, London N4 2NQ
http://www.furtherfield.org/gallery
Just finished PhD at Birkbeck University, London. Title -- 'Furthefield: Twenty
years of Art, Technology & Social Change.
Recent publications:
Artists Re:thinking the Blockchain. Eds, Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett, Nathan
Jones, & Sam Skinner. Liverpool Press - http://bit.ly/2x8XlMK
State Machines: Reflections & Actions at the Edge of Digital Citizenship,
Finance, & Art. Edited by Yiannis Colakides, Marc Garrett, Inte Gloerich.
Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam 2019 http://bit.do/eQgg3
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