Museum of Modern Art (New York)
Solo Screening: Alison Nguyen
Date & Time: 4 December 2023, 7pm
Venue: Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters, The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019, United States
Galerie du Monde is thrilled to announce that the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) will present a solo screening of artist Alison Nguyen's "my favorite software is being here" (2020-2021).
Alison Nguyen
Andra8: my favorite software is being here, 2020-2021
HD video, color, stereo sound, 19 minutes 47 seconds
Video centering on a computer-generated woman raised by the Internet in isolation in a virtual void. From the apartment where she has been placed Andra8 works as a digital laborer, surviving off the data from her various freemium jobs as a virtual assistant, a data janitor, a life coach, and a content creator.
The domestic space from which she is constantly surveilled looks like the inoffensive love child of the results of a ‘Mid-century modern’ Pinterest search, a mental health hospital, and a perpetually sunny L.A. Airbnb. In other words: A kind of antiseptic neoliberal purgatory.
As she multitasks throughout the day, Andra8 is monitored finding herself overwhelmed by a web of global client demands. Something begins to trouble Andra8: her life depends on her compulsory consumption and output of human data – or so she’s been told. Andra8 explores the implications of such an existence, and what arises when one attempts to subvert them.
Watch an excerpt of "my favorite software is being here" --
Learn more --
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/560
