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Podcast: Macroaggressions
Episode: #67: Show Me Your Cookies | Johnny Dollar
Description: There is an old saying that a picture is worth a thousand words, and nowhere is that more true than looking at the artwork of Post-Pop Surrealist artist Johnny Dollar.
His cryptoanarchy and cypherpunk-inspired art explore themes like the surveillance state, privacy, copyright, hive-mind thinking, and virtual reality. He questions humanity’s ever increasing interplay with technology, whether that be digital, mechanical, pharmaceutical, or neuro-linguistic.
Leave it to the artists to see the world as it actually is, and these days the dystopian future is right in front of our faces. Can art wake up the wo...