DYSTOYO

Tokyo is both the inspiration and the studio for both Simon's glitch art and Zoria's cyber[punk] poetry. They create on the move, oftentimes on the commute, with the excitement, immediacy and restlessness that only Tokyo can stir up, and because the nature of the city also limits time and space for creativity. It's a utopian/dystopian cocktail you can taste in the art and poetry of this book, both tackling themes including futurism, euphoria, belonging, hypercapitalism, alienation, devices and internet addiction.​

 

The glitch art looks the way Tokyo sometimes feels. It's shifting, chaotic, exciting and it's unfathomable. While the glitchy language, punctuation liberties and imagined linguistic shifts create a semi-fictional neo-Babel. A DYSTOKYO made of present and future (un)realities.