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Zach Blas Exhibition – Contra-Internet: Jubilee 2033

Four people (with one being a holographic image) walking on a beach
March 1 - March 17, 2023
11:00AM - 4:00PM
Hopkins Hall Gallery

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Add to Calendar 2023-03-01 11:00:00 2023-03-17 16:00:00 Zach Blas Exhibition – Contra-Internet: Jubilee 2033 Re-imagining scenes from filmmaker Derek Jarman’s 1978 queer punk film Jubilee, Jubilee 2033 follows author Ayn Rand (Susanne Sachsse) and members of her Collective, including economist Alan Greenspan, on an acid trip in 1955. Guided by an artificial intelligence named Azuma, they are transported to a dystopian future Silicon Valley.   As Apple, Facebook, and Google campuses burn, Azuma reveals that Ayn has become a celebrity philosopher to tech executives, as her writings foster their entrepreneurial spirit. Amidst the wreckage, Rand and The Collective are introduced to the internet, observe techies being captured by anti-campus groupies, and bear witness to the death of Silicon Valley elite. Once inside an occupied office of Palantir Technologies, the group encounters Nootropix (Cassils), a contra-sexual, contra-internet prophet, who lectures on the end of the internet as we know it. Seeking respite, Rand and The Collective find themselves at Silicon Beach, where chunks of polycrystalline silicon mix with sand and ocean.    Artist: Zach Blas Art Caption: Zach Blas, Contra-Internet: Jubilee 2033, featuring Susanne Sachsse, HD film still, 2018, Commissioned by Gasworks, Art in General, and MU. Courtesy of the Artist. Hopkins Hall Gallery Urban Arts Space uas@osu.edu America/New_York public

Re-imagining scenes from filmmaker Derek Jarman’s 1978 queer punk film JubileeJubilee 2033 follows author Ayn Rand (Susanne Sachsse) and members of her Collective, including economist Alan Greenspan, on an acid trip in 1955. Guided by an artificial intelligence named Azuma, they are transported to a dystopian future Silicon Valley.

 

As Apple, Facebook, and Google campuses burn, Azuma reveals that Ayn has become a celebrity philosopher to tech executives, as her writings foster their entrepreneurial spirit. Amidst the wreckage, Rand and The Collective are introduced to the internet, observe techies being captured by anti-campus groupies, and bear witness to the death of Silicon Valley elite. Once inside an occupied office of Palantir Technologies, the group encounters Nootropix (Cassils), a contra-sexual, contra-internet prophet, who lectures on the end of the internet as we know it. Seeking respite, Rand and The Collective find themselves at Silicon Beach, where chunks of polycrystalline silicon mix with sand and ocean. 

 

Artist: Zach Blas

Art Caption: Zach Blas, Contra-Internet: Jubilee 2033, featuring Susanne Sachsse, HD film still, 2018, Commissioned by Gasworks, Art in General, and MU. Courtesy of the Artist.

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