"You used to pick up the newspaper and read the news. Now the news is a two way communication channel. Now when you read the news, the news also reads you."
Part 4 of 10
Robert Montgomery is the first and only fine artist to use an NFT to critique the very medium the work is hosted on. This important new work by Montgomery titled "You Are An Agent of Free Sunlight" explores the existential sphere of the digital world we have created. It looks at how digital communication and devices have become the managers of our time; tracks how our own biographies are now reflected back to us within advertising media ("social media"), and asks what that means for questions of intellectual and emotional freedom and our connection to the natural world.
YOU ARE AN AGENT OF FREE SUNLIGHT reflects on our reliance on smartphones “Like a witch’s cat, it is your primary familiar, a little illuminated window with fire from the inside, and a little box of ghosts, exactly tailored for you.” Increasingly defining our reality, this digital space has an ability to analyze and track humanity, that is more invasive than any time in our history. Montgomery suggests that this constant tracking and analysis may be a sort of training process to make the withdrawal of our freedoms in real life easier. Prose spirals and zigzags, crashes and disintegrates into the darkness, in the poetic final sentences the artist invites viewers to leave their screens and realise the magic of the natural world.
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