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Please come back : il mondo come prigione? = the world as prison?

Title
Please come back : il mondo come prigione? = the world as prison? / a cura di Hou Hanru, Luigia Lonardelli.
Publication
  • [Milano, Italy] : Mousse Publishing, [2017]
  • ©2017

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Additional Authors
  • Hou, Hanru
  • Lonardelli, Luigia
Description
237 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
Summary
The exponential development of digital technologies, the advent of social networks, and big data have progressively and inexorably changed our society. We are witnessing the collapse of philosophies of social and urban sharing and the establishment of a new regime that in the name of security is stripping us, with our consent, of every intimate and personal space. The exhibition Please Come Back. The World as Prison? starts out from these considerations to investigate our contemporary society. Control and power systems are explored both physically and metaphorically, seeking an answer to the question: What would we like back in our lives from the "paradise lost" of the modern age? Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at the MAXXI museum, this catalogue features more than fifty works by twenty-six artists that treat prison as a metaphor for the contemporary world, and the contemporary world as a metaphor for prison: technological, hyper-connected, shared, and ever more closely controlled.
Alternative Title
  • Mondo come prigione?
  • Please come back : the world as prison?
Subject
  • 2000-2099
  • Art, Modern > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • Privacy in art > Exhibitions
  • Imprisonment > In art > Exhibitions
  • Electronic surveillance in art > Exhibitions
  • Social control > Exhibitions
  • Art and society > Exhibitions
  • Art and society
  • Art, Modern
  • Electronic surveillance in art
  • Privacy in art
  • Social control
Genre/Form
Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • Catalog of an exhibition held at the MAXXI, Rome, Italy, February 9-May 21, 2017.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
  • Text in Italian and English.
Contents
Please come back : the world as prison? / by Hou Hanru and Luigia Lonardelli -- Smile, you're on camera : surveillance aesthetics in contemporary art, pre- and post-9/11 / by Simone Ciglia -- The panoptic city : control strategies and artistic practice / by Luca Quattrocchi -- Algorithms as glass prisons / by Tiziano Bonini -- Against a calculated life : how to overcome the privacy worldview / by Patricia de Vries and Geert Lovink.
ISBN
  • 9788867492633
  • 8867492632
LCCN
2017423695
OCLC
  • ocn979563047
  • 979563047
  • SCSB-8419851
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library