Choose Your Future, 2021
<p><em>Choose Your Future</em>, 2021, is part of KW Digital: Open Secret, 16 July – 31 December.</p> <p>In 2021, I commissioned a group of artists and memers to write short wiki-style descriptions of fantastical future scenarios. Writers were instructed to copy/paste existing wikipedia entries and “play mad libs” with the nouns and dates. Drawing on movements from the past, these short stories recombine political history to anticipate long tail ideologies and factions that may soon emerge.</p> <p><em>Choose Your Future</em> takes the hyperbolic imaginings of young people, raised on the internet, and puts their words directly into the mouths of content creators. In this way, the project emulates the signal amplification that occurs through social media, as radical takes move from the anonymous fringe into the verified mainstream. Is this the multi-faceted analysis of the Rand Corporation? Or is it a teenage meme poster who thinks it would be cool if these political keywords combined? I’m interested in the point where those spheres overlap.</p>
Artists: Joshua Citarella
Contributors: Margo Bergamini, Nick Bird, manletpill, David Noel, Abbey Pusz, D.Z. Rowan, Joshua Citarella
Narrator: Caroline Busta, Mat Dryhurst, A.M. Gittlitz, Daniel Keller, Anna Khachiyan, Holly Herndon, Lil Internet, Jack Wagner, Joshua Citarella
Part of: Joshua Citarella Podcast