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Artists offer a wake-up call on global techno-politics in new exhibition
Recent and newly commissioned artworks from Australian and international artists can be seen for the first time in a new exhibition about the Internet at The University of Queensland Art Museum.
Don’t Be Evil explores the hidden power structures behind the networked technologies that are dominating our everyday lives.
UQ Art Museum Curator Anna Briers said it was a timely interrogation of the dramatic social, political and personal impacts of artificial intelligence and the Internet.
“In this COVID-19 moment there has been much talk about how the Internet brings people together,” she said.
After unprecedented closures, a broken leg and stranded artworks last year, the National Gallery of Australia’s Nick Mitzevich is ready to embrace controversy.