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Hito Steyerl A Sea of Data

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART, KOREA

ito Steyerl’s first major survey in Asia, “A (2015) about art museums before and after the 2011 uprising and refugee crisis in Syria and Turkey. The video installation (2020) featured data analytics on trends in 2020, including demonstrations during the pandemic, while reflecting on the pervasive replacement of reality by virtual spaces. The newly commissioned (2022) consists of three walls of interactive imagery from the Lascaux caves and a single-channel narrative video about local shepherds in Spain fighting against the producers of a reality-TV show in the metaverse.

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