VOLKSEMPFÄNGER: ARTWORKS BY dAVID K.: dAVID K PHOTOGRAPHY AT 2010 TAIPEI BIENNALE

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dAVID K PHOTOGRAPHY AT 2010 TAIPEI BIENNALE

NSK Volk Art Artifacts:

September 7 – November 14, 2010

A selection of NSK Volk Art artefacts, curated by IRWIN and NSKSTATE.COM

Presented artists: Peter Blase, Christian Chrobok, Danaja, Dape, Haris Hararis/NSKSTATE.COM, dAVID K, Charles Krafft, Goran Lišnjić, Lili Anamarija No, Christain Nnoruga, NSK.IS, Avi Pitchon, Alex Ross & Chris Wade, Armin Zerbe

at the Taipei Biennial 10, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Sept. 7 – Nov. 14, 2010

The Volksempfänger ("people's receiver") was a radio receiver developed in 1933 to make radio technology affordable to the general public for propagandistic reasons. Despite the nature of the broadcasts the radio was intended to receive, the evil genius of the device was the efficient nature in which messages could be directly disseminated to the masses. The internet is the modern equivalent of the Volksempfänger - it costs little, it reaches millions of people, and one should be very, very critical of the rubbish emanating from it.