Beijing museum opens 'supermarket' of images

In addition, the exhibit touches upon an array of topics including the protection of personal information, internet giants' pervasive influence, digital labor, and crypto-currencies.

Yet, as some museum goers and exhibit reviewers commented, to navigate the exhibit and find out answers in specific artworks may be no easy task. That is largely because the artworks are not displayed in a certain order.

"We didn't want to use the various works as mere examples or illustrations. Of course, they were subsumed under the headings of the five parts of the show, but we were very eager not to let the curatorial discourse engulf their presence and radiance, at the cost of creating some turbulence for visitors," Szendy said in an interview with NECSUS, a European journal of media studies, in last December.