Card Only Contactless Preferred (Zine)
From Cildo Miereles’ Insertions into Ideological Circuits in the early 1970’s to Jenny Holzer’s Truisms which are still produced today, post-modern art has sought to reveal the nuances in the relationships between knowledge, information, mass media and commercialisation. What these works, and Card Only, Contactless Preferred have in common, is the application of semantic information to create thoughtful relationships for the viewer which intends to provoke introspection, specifically about their own behaviours and positions within power super-structures. Focusing on the COVID-19 pandemic, Card Only, Contactless Preferred seeks to explore how the commercialisation of information according to the writing of Jean-François Lyotard (1979) in the postmodern era relates to and affects the production and influence of mass-produced goods within the epoch of popular culture as suggested by Jean Baudrillard.
