There are already 35 server farms on Mars. It is the perfect temperature, 2017, 3’08”
作品探討後真相年代的數碼南柯夢,素材是YouTube上找來的片段。從自由工作者網上平台找來的配音員朗讀著旁白,內容是推斷生活如何日漸變得更數碼化。
在這片段中,群體被視作商品,成為類似比特幣的新形式貨幣。這能在我們的肉身周圍建立出一張安全網,安全網以假新聞所觸發的仿製恐懼維生,而我們的數碼形態得以透過虛擬實景和新興技術,自由自在地奔馳。
Bob Bicknell-Knight
Bob Bicknell-Knight(b. Suffolk, UK) is a London based artist, curator and writer, working in several mediums including installation, sculpture, video, and digital media. His work is influenced by surveillance capitalism and responds to the hyper consumerism of the internet. Utopia, dystopia, automation, surveillance and digitization of the self are some of the themes that arise through his critical examination of contemporary technologies.
Bicknell-Knight is also the founder and director of isthisit?, a predominantly online platform for contemporary art, exhibiting over 800 artists since its creation in May 2016.
Selected solo and duo exhibitions include Pickers at Industra, Brno (2021), Bit Rot at Broadway Gallery, Letchworth (2020), The Big Four, duo show with Rosa-Maria Nuutinen at Harlesden High Street, London (2019), Wellness, Ltd., duo show with Erin Mitchell at Galerie Manque, New York (2019), State of Affairs at Salon 75, Copenhagen (2019), CACOTOPIA 02 at Annka Kultys Gallery, London (2018) and Sunrise Prelude at Dollspace, London (2017).
Bicknell-Knight has spoken on panel discussions and given artist talks at Contemporary Calgary, Canada (2020), Tate Modern, London (2019), University of Cambridge, Cambridge (2019), Camberwell College of Arts, London (2019) and Goldsmiths, University of London, London (2018).