Please, Insert Coin and Become Data: Qu Chen on Data Colonialism

Qu Chen’s On-Chain Persona (2025) reveals how contemporary socio-economic systems process and sort human beings rather than value their psychobiological existence. He does so through an apparently cheerful digital version of postmodern pastiche: high-fidelity avatars; nostalgic audiovisual references to 1980s pop culture; colour-saturated virtual arcades made featuring pixelated urban architecture and tropical landscapes; buildings carrying […] The post Please, Insert Coin and Become Data: Qu Chen on Data Colonialism appeared first on Our Culture.

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