SINS by CryptoArg

Cryptoarg is a digital art collective uniting Argentinian artists of the likes of Frenetik Void, Milton Sanz, Fede Bona and Crypt0baby.
In 1505 Bosch painted his Table of the Deadly Sins, on poplar wood, it has a square shape and four paintings in each corner that represent Death, Judgment, Hell, and Glory. In the centre a painting of an eye. In the pupil Christ, like Sauron, who sees it all, careful, careful, God's watching you. He is surrounded by golden rays and further out the seven deadly sins all painted in different sizes.
Today we are all Sauron, and only with a simple swipe of a card or with the scan of a barcode, we can get a screen which comes with a small, discreet, almost invisible camera. The general idea is that now where there is an image to see there’s also an eye, watching. Now the camera’s on and a new morality were “everything should be seen” appears far beyond theological discourses. There is a theatre of sin. And, in a sense, there is no more theatre than sin. Sin-entertainment. Pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth, far from being an archaism, are the mainstream of contemporary society, and not because we are all “bad”, but because they are part of a society were “everything should be seen”. Who would go to see a reality show expecting nothing to happen?
Reality TV is not trial fun, it is surveillance mode. An exercise in puritanical high morals. Humanity that had once been the object of contemplation for gods, has now become so for itself. What is left for us? Show, reveal the outlines, their unthinkable facets, their illusions, their lies. Like the strategy of stealing a negative connotation to use it as distinctive characteristic with pride these images are a form of appropriation. The world is moving towards transparency. Universe of clarity, of light, in which there are eyes that sprout and hatch without rest. The world is an immense field of gazes. Computerized, miniaturized, expanded, transported, diffused, they flourish everywhere.
And before the spot or the scandal that attracts the eye these images are a form of appropriation. They show it unscrupulously as a flag. Not to be the centre of attention but to turn the tables. What do we gain from this? A little intelligence and, then, the possibility of orienting ourselves better in the world. What we win is finally some freedom.