In this iteration of Thumbs That Type and Swipe at Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, seven images (from an enlarged and isolated mosquito to a close up of a ‘thumbs up’) are placed in light boxes commonly fabricated for advertising — selling you a pesticide or a national symbol? But of course you are in a gallery within an exhibition and this assemblage of seemingly incongruous images is selected by DIS who use the propaganda of nations and promotional material of markets to chop off heads.

Writer, artist and current Assistant Curator of Rhizome's net art program, Aria Dean will be giving an artist talk at Plug In ICA as part of our Video Speaker Series for Thumbs That Type and Swipe: The DIS Edutainment Network (Session I […]