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Title: 
Victoria Ascaso. So Sad Today
Programme: 
Babestu. Contemporary creation support, 2021-2022
Date: 
2021-2022
Artist(s): 
Ascaso, Victoria (1986- )
Produced by: 
Azkuna Zentroa - Alhóndiga Bilbao
Type: 
Artistic residency
Tags: 
Art and technology
Digital culture
Online social networks
Summary: 
So Sad Today is a transdisciplinary research project revolving around contemporary digital cultures. It is focused on the friction occurring among identities developed in the physical world and those developed in the digital worlds of each person. The project addresses “digital dysphoria”, i.e. a concept characterised by a feeling of discomfort due to the dissociation with our digital ego.

“This research came about as part of the journey undertaken during my doctoral thesis ‘Millennial intimacies. Contemporary artistic practices and smartphones’, through which I’ve worked in-depth on the transformation of both intimacy and public and private spheres in digital environments. My intention with this route is to look inwards towards one’s own physicalness, with its regrets, fluids and limitations which, however much one insists to the contrary, it is already a complex hybrid subject and inevitably cyborg.”
Related activities: 
Victoria Ascaso. RE:TR1ST3S
Victoria Ascaso. Pretty Sad
Victoria Ascaso. So Sad Today [intervención artística]
Appears in Collections:
Babestu. Contemporary creation support