# Ideas for the "Show"
- Xiaotian Peng
- Apr 25, 2022
- 1 min read
Exhibition Idea
Abandoned space, blankness, emptiness—New senses are created to re-sensitise the data.
Title: ‘All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace’
"All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace" is a poem by Richard Brautigan first published in his 1967 collection of the same name, his fifth book of poetry. It presents an enthusiastic description of a technological utopia in which machines improve and protect the lives of humans. The poem has counterculture and hippie themes, influenced by Cold War-era technology. It has been interpreted both as utopian and as an ironic critique of the utopia it describes. It is Brautigan's most frequently reprinted poem.
For a creative practice that explores the tensions between humans and data, it is hard to imagine a title that evokes this unease more than this poem by writer Richard Brautigan from the 1960s.
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