13 July 2018
6:30pm AA Gallery
California, it is said, pioneered tools of personal liberation, from LSD to the iPhone. Brendan McGetrick charts the history of ‘Made in California,’ from counterculture to current techno-Utopianism, and by doing so, reveals the ideological unconscious behind Silicon Valley’s design of the self. In the novel Sympathy, by Olivia Sudjic, Alice Hare embarks on a journey of Instagram obsession around a Japanese writer called Mizuko. The story traverses the emotional terrain between coincidence and providence, between online and offline selves.