The Bezos video plays in a constant loop over a flat panel television. She is one of six artists featured in the latest Gallery 360 show, ‘Infinitude.’ Photos by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University Pieces by U.S.-based artist Chitra Ganesh, who draws from mythology, literature, and popular culture to reveal feminist and queer narratives.
“But that’s taken to an absolute extreme with our examples of contemporary techno-kings like Elon Musk and Bezos,” she says, referring to the respective tech billionaires behind SpaceX and Amazon. “The ‘private man’ was someone who was able to stand apart from society and not be subject to its laws and expectations,” says Halliday. author Ralph Waldo Emerson to describe the limitless potential of the self-reliant individual.
The result of that commentary, along with five other artists’ works, comprise Infinitude―a term coined by 19th century U.S. soul and jazz poet Gil Scott-Heron reciting his poem, Whitey on the Moon, tracing earthly inequality at the time of the 1969 Apollo moon landings, to today. That work, Amnesia Express, by American digital artist Josh Begley, includes footage of U.S. Photos by Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University The campus art display tackles human rights, justice, and privilege through the prism of outer space. Artwork includes, at left, Sofia Karim's Lita’s House – Gallows. Students install the 'Infinitude' exhibition at Gallery 360.
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