Simon Weckert
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The Map Becomes the Territory – Street 3.0


Artist talk, 2024


Platforms like Google Maps have become crucial gateways for understanding the world, yet they harbour significant gaps and biases that often result from processes of exclusion. As a consequence, their digital augmentations act more like distortions than reflections, illuminating only certain facets of the world at the expense of others. This doesn’t necessarily mean fairer futures are impossible, but it does reinforce the existing power dynamics.

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