2020 digital odyssey: online or nothing
2020 digital odyssey: online or nothing

Author(s): Gaia Tedone
Subject(s): Visual Arts, ICT Information and Communications Technologies, Sociology of Art
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: curatorship; ICT; visual arts; online;
Summary/Abstract: The spread of COVID-19 at the beginning of the year 2020, put the whole world in a position of forced pause. For a short moment, the global pandemic presented itself as a great equalizer, forcing people across various geographies to reconsider and change their habits and behaviors. However, the social and economic costs of the pandemic did not spread evenly across the globe. Vulnerable people and communities were hit harder, and pre-existing social inequalities were reinforced. In this context, technology played a double role, acting as a social glue among geographically dislocated communities and people, whilst also rendering more palpable the so-called digital divide – a term which is used in the social sciences to refer to the gap between the information ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ and, more generally, to uneven access to technology and network infrastructures.

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