Online
Pete Burkeet
PLUG-IN / UNPLUG
Apr 23 - 24, 2024

Overview
"I wanted to work with my own personal experience growing up with pop culture, how the obsession with small talk, small ideas, and a false sense of body perfection made me search for ways of escaping."
- Pete Burkeet
Details
"Plug-In / Unplug" is a collection of AI artworks that explore the duality of existence in the industrial world. The series addresses the stark contrast between those who are comfortable living as consumers and those who experience angst about such a lifestyle and wish to escape it.
Plug-In segment delves into a world where consumers are constantly reaching for unattainable perfection and experiencing brief highs from sugar rushes, encapsulating lust, gluttony, and greed. These desires are portrayed as being as natural and necessary as a plug drawing electricity from a wall, yet potentially overwhelming and destructive.