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In the Whitney Biennial, Artists Explore the Horrifying Boundary Between Human and Machine

  • Harrison Jacobs--ARTnews
  • published date: 2026-03-17 19:58:11 UTC

As the world wakes up to our techno-capitalist age, artists are stripping technology of its sterile shell to reveal the beasts hidden in the machine.

As I stood in the Whitney Museum’s sixth-floor gallery for the opening of this year’s Biennial, I found the eye of a surveillance camera, iridescent and round as a soap bubble, staring back at me. It… [+8871 chars]