The exhibition After Body explores and examines the situation of the body in the digital space with the use of ethnographic methods. The digital space absorbed the old power structures and patterns and unfolded them into the new forms of violence, dominance and exploitation. The seamingly neutral field of ones and zeros grew into a digital plantation on which our bodies work under the supervision of the algorithms. The author presents three works of various forms – a video installation Ethnographic Study of Algorithms, the publication Digital Negroes: an Ethnographic Dictionary, and a VR installation After Body: Situation. Each work uses a different language to describe and analyse the contemporary phenomena and processes that occur both inside and outside the digital space. The author summarizes them under the term digital colonialism.
Dalibor Knapp (*1985) is a student of the Centre for Audiovisual Studies at FAMU. The exhibition set After Body is his diploma project.
