Technology as a site of a post-religious cult?

The Golden Calf

Jeffrey Shaw

1994

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The interactive installation offers viewers a transformational experience of being between the real and the virtual. By simulating the object of pagan worship in the new digital world, the artist shows how technology can create a post-religious utopia or propagate its own myths, and how it’s supposed rationalism does not protect against the ritualization of behaviours towards it.

The Golden Calf