Feb 20, 2022
32 min read
jonCates, people say…
“New Media artist jonCates’s 2019 film “Ghosttown” re-imagines the Web’s frontier as a purgatory-like dreamspace metaphor offering one vision of how we can begin “connecting yesterday’s traumas and technologies to those of today.” Using classic Western film tropes like “the showdown” as guideposts, Cates discusses reparations, first contacts, nostalgia, and ghostly transitions through a stark, rough and bitcrushed, black-and-white moving image…
