FOMO Day 2: Erika Balsom on Harun Farocki’s Serious Games

Erika Balsom introduces a screening of Harun Farocki’s four-part series Serious Games (2009–10). In this series Farocki captures the uses and implications of computer games in the training of US military.

Chaired by Berlin artist and theorist Hito Steyerl, FOMO was a three-day event that brought together leading international theorists, academics, social thinkers and artists to discuss postdigital anxieties and the social condition.

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