Castle Postcards Frozen in Cursed Captcha Scrolls: On, Technofeudalism, Countercultures, and Neo-Medieval Aesthetics
With artist Babak Ahteshamipour
Castle Postcards Frozen in Cursed Captcha Scrolls is a critical examination of the interweaving of techno-feudalism and countercultures with neo-medieval aesthetics and politics – across video games, experimental music, memes, and the internet.
In English.
Babak Ahteshamipour is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker, musician, graphic designer, author/researcher, creative director, and curator working in Vienna (AT) and Athens (GR). His work moves between disciplines such as 3D, graphic design, and music, which meet in a common language and explore themes from cyberspace to ecology and from politics to identity through gaming and internet culture. His works have been presented at festivals, venues, and institutions such as the Centre Pompidou and Onassis ONX, and featured in magazines and platforms such as Bandcamp Daily and the CTM Festival magazine. He has released music on independent labels such as Industrial Coast and Jollies and shared the stage with musician s like Zoviet France and HELM. In addition, he has collaborated with musician s like Fire-Toolz and Digifae.