Dreamland was completely immersive. Similar to the previous exhibition I visited. Factory of the Sun stood out to me the most. I enjoyed it because I am fascinated with Virtual Reality and hopes to work with it in one way or another professionally. I find it very compelling as virtual reality is gaining traction as technologies become more readily available. The world is already intertwined with digital but we are only going to continue that trend. Steyerl work seems like it is showing what an all digital world can be and perhaps even will be, just how the only thing not digital in some people life is themselves. Hence, how there were people in the set, but not the main focus.
In “Digital Divide” by Claire Bishop, shows how artists like to do the opposite of what Steyerl did. Contemporary art is so reluctant to discuss how digital plays such an important part of our lives. Perhaps it is what the spokesmen for “old media” said, there is a loss in the physical editor process and so some artists do not get the full value in creating art with the news tools and technologies or they want some certain athestic. Emily Jacir investigation to the life of a poet did not use the new tools like Google, and one could argue that she only did not because she wanted to put more “effort” instead of taking advantage of everything around her. Even when I like to argue new tools and techs aid the artist to create new athestic and help people create art that only that artist can create and people can’t copy.