When asked about the “anti-humanist” conviction in cyberpunk, Bruce Sterling answered that “cyberpunk genre is not simply some literary stunt to outrage the bourgeoisie; this is an objective fact about culture in the late twentieth century. Cyberpunk didn’t invent this situation; it just reflects it.” So does work by Simon Denny—born 1982, to represent New Zealand at the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015: meeting points, figures and processes behind the major brands of today reflect… [read more »]