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It has been eight years since the ScreenSaverGallery started exploring the waters of the computer screensaver as an artistic medium. The research not only happens during exhibitions in the gallery itself, but it has also taken on a more academic dimension. The culmination of this research is the publication The Art of Screensaver (published by […]
Tags: screensaver, PAF, Refresh
April–December 2021 It has been eight years since the ScreenSaverGallery started exploring the waters of the computer screensaver as an artistic medium. The research not only happens during exhibitions in the gallery itself, but it has also taken on a more academic dimension. The culmination of this research is the publication The Art of Screensaver (published by […]
Tags: screensaver, Tomáš Javůrek, Mary Meixner, Barbora Trnková
Screensaver is a computer program that was originally designed to protect the computer screen or monitor from permanent damage caused by the long display of still images. From the perspective of its user (viewer), screensaver demonstrates itself as the moving image – most often a simple form of animation running on the computer screen […]
Jacob Broms Engblom (*1986) is Swedish digital artist who graduated in Communication and Media Studies from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Since 2009, he has been part of the net art creative duo buildinging with Californian technologist, web developer and software engineer Mitch Trale. They run together e.g. a gallery of contemporary art […]
Tags: screensaver, PAF, Mary Meixner, Jacob Broms Engblom
LaTurbo Avedon is digital artist and curator who is “digital” in the literal sense of the word. They are not a living person, but a virtual avatar. Nobody really knows who stands behind the identity, if it is an individual, a group of people or, maybe, artificial intelligence. And most importantly – it does not […]
Tags: screensaver, Mary Meixner, LaTurbo Avedon
Zdenek Svejkovský (b. 1989) has graduated from Atelier of Interactive media at Department of Electronic Image, Faculty of Art and Design at Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic, where he currently pursuits his doctor’s degree. Both his bachelor and diploma work were focused on net art.
Tags: screensaver, Zdenek Svejkovský, The Palette of Colours, Czech art, YouTube
Unleashing Screensaver was a participatory collaborative project which looked at the notion of aesthetic education and its diversity across fields and cultures. The project was inspired by and dedicated to the legacy of Maxine Greene, and initiated by the Teachers College, Columbia University New York, for Unleashing exhibition. Over 45 educators and their students from various educational institutions, disciplines and […]
Tags: Unleashing Screensaver
Církevní gymnázium Německého řádu Olomouc (The Comprehensive School of the Teutonic Order) is highschool in Olomouc, where lessons of Art Education and Czech Language are taught by dedicated pedagogue Lucie Pokorná. The art education however is part of a higher grade curriculum in the first year only. In case of deeper interest, students are encouraged to choose a voluntary […]
Tags: Unleashing Screensaver, Církevní gymnázium Německého řádu, The Comprehensive School of the Teutonic Order
The simple work showed by this class of 3d modeling taught by Michela De Carlo at Carrara Academy of Fine Art, made up mainly by Chinese students, is an attempt to explain how teaching art can help communication. Composing small pieces of information, recomposing them, mixing them, modeling simple shapes you can try go beyond the language […]
Tags: Unleashing Screensaver, Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara, 3d modelling, The School of New Art Technologies
Václav Janoščík is important Czech theorist and curator who focuses on contemporary theory and philosophy of art and lectures at leading Czech academies and universities (e.g. Academy of Fine Arts, Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design, Film and Television School of Academy of Performing Arts, Philosophical Faculty of Charles University; all in Prague). The contribution for Unleashing Screensaver exhibition […]
Tags: Unleashing Screensaver, Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Václav Janoščík, Academy of Arts Architecture & Design in Prague