Liam Power is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, educator and musician who works with sound, video and data. He Graduated with Distinction from the RMIT Fine Art Honours Program in 2019, majoring in Sound and Video Art. He has exhibited at Kings ARI (2018), Trocadero (2021) and worked as contractor and sound-recordist with artists exhibiting at Blindside and Gertrude Contemporary.
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In a digital age where algorithms and data have seeped into the very fabric of daily life, Liam's work serves as a critical lens for examining our mediated realities. Influenced by
Jean Baudrillard's ideas on 'simulacra' and Guy Debord's
'The Society of the Spectacle,' his work grapples with the increasingly blurred boundaries between online and offline realities.
Utilising open-source coding tools and data-driven techniques, Liam's art confronts the ethical and social dimensions of a hyper-connected, neo-capitalist society. His works echo Baudrillard's warnings of a world overtaken by its own signs and Debord's critique of an image-obsessed culture.
Liam's work challenges audiences to question the ways in which technology mediates human experience and the place of technology in our society. The for-profit tech industry often seeks to realign our perceptions to suit corporate and surveillance agendas, leading to a state of transactional content production labour is self-enforced.
Through his art, Liam invites audiences to interrogate the reality constructed by these mediated images and data, inciting a more conscious engagement with the pervasive technologies that shape our world.