{"id":8512,"date":"2013-12-12T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T10:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/2013\/12\/12\/how-do-we-want-to-think-about-the\/"},"modified":"2013-12-12T10:54:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T10:54:00","slug":"how-do-we-want-to-think-about-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/en\/magazine\/how-do-we-want-to-think-about-the\/","title":{"rendered":"How do we want to think about the future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-8426\" src=\"http:\/\/a-desk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/201310_dissident_object1_590-2.jpg\" alt=\"201310_dissident_object1_590-2.jpg\" align=\"left\" width=\"670\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/a-desk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/201310_dissident_object1_590-2.jpg 670w, https:\/\/a-desk.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/201310_dissident_object1_590-2-595x363.jpg 595w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 670px) 100vw, 670px\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ybca.org\/dissident-futures\">Dissident Futures<\/a> is a choral display of imaginings about the future. It can be visited until 2 February 2014 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. With work by 19 artists and various talks and performances programmed in parallel, it constitutes an invitation to reconsider the desires that we project onto the future, with a bit of a critical spirit.  <\/p>\n<p>In the heart of a city articulated around the developments of the industries of Silicon Valley, where one breathes in an unconditional enthusiasm for the effect that the brains of Google<em> et al<\/em> are already having on the lives of its citizens, it seems more than pertinent to stop and think about the real effects that this technological surge will actually have, beyond the oasis of the bay.<\/p>\n<p>The curator of the show, Betty-Sue Hertz, wants to provide the public with a selection of pieces that present, in principal, critical images of the future. However, the selection of works doesn&#8217;t manage to lend form to such a stance. Voices that really question the blind wager on technical virtuosity are hushed by the recreation with technical aesthetics represented by others. Worth highlighting are the video <em>Popular Unrest<\/em>, by Melanie Gilligan (2010); the enormous watercolours by Dan Mills, <em>Quest <\/em> (2012);<em> Infinity Engine<\/em>, the body prototypes by  Lynn Hershman (2013); and <em>Kempinski <\/em> (2007), one of the ethnographical science fiction documentaries by Neil Beloufa. <\/p>\n<p>The endeavour of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to sow the seed of doubt about the responsibility entailed by the compulsive lucubration over the future, in the heart of SOMA in San Francisco, is deactivated by the strength of the hegemonic gaze that articulates life in this city. To raise eyebrows one has to act with a bit more force. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dissident Futures is a choral display of imaginings about the future. 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