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Art Dubai; MoMA’s political video art show; Lucie Rie

The Week in Art

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Video and Politics

The show is in general constantly toggling back and forth between contesting forms of control but also reveling in the possibilities of the technology. Artists are really dreaming of connecting with others, sometimes at massive scales that were never possible before. They dreamed of essentially what could be something like the internet. But they're already realizing that those dreams are fraught with phenomena like surveillance, disinformation or breakdown of communication.

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