Your fluid self
30march–30september
What does "digital identity" mean? The pioneers of the Internet age supposed that the web is a playground for identity construction, that we can reimagine our social body by switching avatars and nicknames. Further identity verification technologies in web 2.0 have evolved rapidly. We need to verify market transactions, fact check, find reliable experts and be responsible for our digital footprint. Does it make us less changeable? Vice versa. Web 3.0 is the space of liquid identity, resistance, drag, dynamic impression and transformation. The works of Aristarkh present a procession of metamorphosis, the digital dream of Arcimboldo. Here the fecundity of image reproduction – the artist worked with Stable Diffusion technology – also casts the shadows of doubt. Is it true that a change of decor, feathers or a shiny wrapper, shakes the well-established symbolic content? We can only answer by observing the fluidity, by changing ourselves.