The Sprawl.

[Place of publication not identified] : Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2015.

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"Metahaven describe their new film The Sprawl as "propaganda about propaganda"-a mutable work that examines the effect of new networked communication technologies on the state's public persuasion and diplomacy. The project is a continuation of their ongoing research addressing the negotiations and pitfalls of modern democracy given the rise of mass surveillance, big data, and cloud-based computing. Speculative in nature, their larger body of work occupies a recognizable present and a near future, where traditional understandings of the nation state become complicated by the multiple identities, allegiances, and lines of communication ushered in by new technologies. Facestate (2010-12), for instance, imagines a time in which social networks like Facebook have truly become systems of surveillance governing a borderless global society. Metahaven developed a brand and advertising campaign for this fictional society, which is eerily familiar given the widespread tracking already enabled by social media platforms. The Sprawl exists in a similar temporal space that is both immediate and prognostic. While it focuses on mediated representations of current events such as the Ebola outbreak, the conflict between the Ukraine and Russia, and the rise of the Islamic State (ISIS), the film's heavily stylized interludes cut through, gesturing toward an anonymous subject on the other side of the screen. Hovering in a ghostly parallel reality, the figures in these clips wield swords or stand transfixed by screens."-- provided by distributor.

Geopolitics.
Propaganda.
Video art.
Géopolitique.
Propagande.
Art vidéo.
geopolitics.
video art.

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Moss, Ceci, contributor.
Library Stack, distributor.
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