Q1 Close by Litia Roko

Overview

A 2025 advertisement for Meta Ray-Ban AI glasses posed a timely question in its title: Hey Meta, Who Eats Art?

The close of a quarter is an opportunity to review, reflect and re-align. Twenty-five years into a century that opened with the utopian promise of the internet as a decentralised, democratic force, technology companies have harvested the history of art and culture as data to fuel an accelerating AI arms race. Q1 Close, the final exhibition of Platform's 2025 program, examines the status of art within shifting economies of value.

Litia is a recipient of the 2025 Canberra Contemporary ANU School of Art & Design Emerging Artist Support Scheme Mentorship and Exhibition Award.

Image courtesy of the artist