campus in Menlo Park, California, on October 23, 2019. It’s the next evolution in a long line of social technologies, and it’s ushering in a new chapter for our company.”įacebook employee Elza Uzmanoff tries out an Oculus device at the company's corporate headquarters. It will let you share immersive experiences with other people even when you can’t be together - and do things together you couldn’t do in the physical world. As the press release explains, “The metaverse will feel like a hybrid of today’s online social experiences, sometimes expanded into three dimensions or projected into the physical world. Meta is an amalgamation of the company’s broader vision to help connect people alongside new and cutting-edge technology that will redefine social interaction. Although the company started as purely a social media network, it evolved into something more: a cultural icon which represents the way people interact with each other, keep track of milestones in a local or national community, and perhaps even find and connect with others that have shared interests.įacebook’s boldest move yet is its recent evolution and rebranding into “Meta,” which CEO Mark Zuckerberg formally announced earlier this week. For billions of people around the world, it redefined traditional notions of communication, connectivity, news gathering, e-commerce, and social interaction. López, Catalina Lozano, Audre Lorde, Portia Malatjie, Margarida Mendes, Peter Pál Pelbart, Naomi Pearce, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Filipa Ramos, Susan Sontag, Paul B.Facebook has undoubtedly become a generation-defining phenomenon. Oreet Ashery, Lucy Beech, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Lorenza Böttner, Canaries & Taraneh Fazeli, Grupo Chaclacayo, Anne Charlotte Robertson, Patricia Domínguez, Dora García, Felix González-Torres, Luke Fowler, Alice Hattrick, Tamar Guimarães, Joseph Grigely, Gran Fury, Johanna Hedva, Mahmoud Khaled, Mujeres Creando, Carolyn Lazard, Simone Leigh, Park McArthur, Pedro Neves Marques, Tabita Rezaire, Jo Spence, Patrick Staff, Christine Sun Kim, Pedro Reyes, David WojnarowiczĪimar Arriola & Nanci Garín, Clare Barlow, Khairani Barokka, Dodie Bellamy, Anne Boyer, Rizvana Bradley, Eli Clare, Taraneh Fazeli, Theodore (ted) Kerr & Alexandra Juhasz, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, R.D. It also features two texts on the current COVID-19 pandemic, by Anne Boyer and Filipa Ramos. The book includes four newly commissioned texts: by artists Mahmoud Khaled and Patrick Staff, by curator Clare Barlow on disability in the museum, and by curator Portia Malatjie on the work of Dineo Seshee Bopape.
By reclaiming other realities, beyond a state of health as a norm, this book questions the myths, stigmas, and cultural attitudes that shape normative perceptions, revealing the interdependence of our entangled existences. In this volume, artists, curators, writers, and thinkers engage with the ways the vulnerability of our bodies reveals structural aspects of our societies.Īt a moment at which epidemics and global warming menace all forms of life, we see clearly how health intersects with sexuality, ethnicity, gender, class, and coloniality. Historically, art has been entwined with the values of medicine, beauty, and the productive body that have defined western scientific paradigms contemporary artists are increasingly confronting and reshaping these ideologies, critically tackling illness and impairment in their practice while challenging ableist institutional dynamics. In an era of fitness programs, increasing antidepressant usage, nutrition counseling and health-management apps, wellness is one of the defining issues of contemporary life, dictating every intimate aspect of our lives. The ethical, aesthetic and political significance of practices, positions, and theories connected to health in contemporary art.