Digital Dystopias

Mariia Pankova

Digital Dystopias reflects on the problematic practices in digital culture, such as surveillance, doxing, and impersonation. These practices altogether contribute to the alarming tendency to devalue human life. Since all of our behavior online is converted to data, we become reduced to lines of binary code in the database. Our personal information enters the veins of the system’s algorithms to further digitize our being. Digital Dystopias is a transcendent posthumanist take on our current relationship with the digital world. In an unnerving immersive lecture-performance, the audience is taken through the process of data production to illustrate the creation of digital traces and the fragility of human life in the data-driven world.

Photo by Anastasia Dzutstsati ’24