Microsoft pulls Hololens 2 ad after claims featured artist affiliated with Satanism
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Published:
April 17, 2020
Updated:
April 17, 2020 11:25 AM EDT
Artist Marina Abramovic attends Marina Abramovic and Pineda Covalin Collaborative Design Benefit Event at MOMA Design Store on Nov. 25, 2014, in New York City.Ben Gabbe / Getty Images
Bosses at Microsoft decided to scrap a new commercial featuring artist Marina Abramovic after conspiracy theories suggested she was affiliated with Satanism.
Abramovic had been featured in the advertisement for a Microsoft headset called the Hololens 2, which allows the user to see digital imagery with the outside world, where she discussed her new mixed reality project and interviewed the CEO of Christie’s auction house.
“I believe that art of the future is art without objects,” she says in the since-deleted YouTube clip. “This is just pure transmission of energy between the viewer and the artist. To me, mixed reality is this answer.”
So on Good Friday Bill Gates’ new Microsoft ad dropped featuring prominent satanist Marina Abramovic who makes “art” out of blood, gore and cannibalism. #SpiritCooking pic.twitter.com/6Qgggp946l
— Joslyne Raquel (@joslyne_raquel) April 13, 2020
However, the clip was met with backlash, amassing 24,000 dislikes amid an online outcry over alleged Satanism, after conspiracy theorist Alex Jones — who is alleged to have sold bogus coronavirus cures — said on his blog Infowars: “Would a tech company really want a Luciferian individual like her to be the face of their new mixed reality device because of her art?”
Abramovic became a target of right-wing conspiracies in 2016, and defended herself when asked about the issue, insisting: “I’m outraged because this is taken completely out of my context.
“Anybody who wants can read my memoirs and find out that (my work) is far away from Satanism.”
http://twitter.com/hashtag/SpiritCooking
http://twitter.com/PhilMcCrotch4/status/1249341080610508801/video/1
http://twitter.com/joslyne_raquel/status/1249497970900226051
http://infowars.com/new-microsoft-ad-features-spirit-cooking-witch-marina-abramovic
http://torontosun.com/technology/mi...st-after-claims-shes-affiliated-with-satanism
WENN - World Entertainment News Network
Published:
April 17, 2020
Updated:
April 17, 2020 11:25 AM EDT
Artist Marina Abramovic attends Marina Abramovic and Pineda Covalin Collaborative Design Benefit Event at MOMA Design Store on Nov. 25, 2014, in New York City.Ben Gabbe / Getty Images
Bosses at Microsoft decided to scrap a new commercial featuring artist Marina Abramovic after conspiracy theories suggested she was affiliated with Satanism.
Abramovic had been featured in the advertisement for a Microsoft headset called the Hololens 2, which allows the user to see digital imagery with the outside world, where she discussed her new mixed reality project and interviewed the CEO of Christie’s auction house.
“I believe that art of the future is art without objects,” she says in the since-deleted YouTube clip. “This is just pure transmission of energy between the viewer and the artist. To me, mixed reality is this answer.”
So on Good Friday Bill Gates’ new Microsoft ad dropped featuring prominent satanist Marina Abramovic who makes “art” out of blood, gore and cannibalism. #SpiritCooking pic.twitter.com/6Qgggp946l
— Joslyne Raquel (@joslyne_raquel) April 13, 2020
However, the clip was met with backlash, amassing 24,000 dislikes amid an online outcry over alleged Satanism, after conspiracy theorist Alex Jones — who is alleged to have sold bogus coronavirus cures — said on his blog Infowars: “Would a tech company really want a Luciferian individual like her to be the face of their new mixed reality device because of her art?”
Abramovic became a target of right-wing conspiracies in 2016, and defended herself when asked about the issue, insisting: “I’m outraged because this is taken completely out of my context.
“Anybody who wants can read my memoirs and find out that (my work) is far away from Satanism.”
http://twitter.com/hashtag/SpiritCooking
http://twitter.com/PhilMcCrotch4/status/1249341080610508801/video/1
http://twitter.com/joslyne_raquel/status/1249497970900226051
http://infowars.com/new-microsoft-ad-features-spirit-cooking-witch-marina-abramovic
http://torontosun.com/technology/mi...st-after-claims-shes-affiliated-with-satanism