New Update Available

New Update Available is a video work in which you take part in a computer course for senior citizens held on a fictional online VR platform. The conversations you hear are audio recordings from a real (Dutch) computer course (recorded in 2018–2019), which lends the experience a recognisable, humorous and, above all, human dimension. Through these conversations, you experience how the individual participants deal with the challenges of digitalisation in their lives: This ranges from forgetting passwords to discussions about how to combat digital illiteracy itself. New Update Available questions whether we need ever better, smarter and ‘more high-tech’ technologies to eliminate digital illiteracy, or whether there will always be a need for such computer courses – even in VR?