Daniel Nováček is a visual artist who is interested in narratology and cinematography in his work. His main authorial program is an extensive video series called Reconstructions, which is characterized by a minimalist “manual” visual language. He graduated from the Intermedia studio at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Brno University of Technology, where […]
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Artist Magdaléna Kašparová, a graduate of the Prague AVU (Tomáš Svoboda studio), lives and works in Prague. In her work, she includes several areas, but the work that resonates with me the most deals with the timeless theme of the contradictions and fluidity of time flow, as it relates to digital technologies. She works […]
Dark web content as a screensaver. Because of tidal locking, a common, Earth-bound observer sees every night one and the same side of the Moon. The internet too is accessed by most of us from the verified, safe, humane side. It is the side that is censored, regulated, that follows laws and bends to economic […]
In the video essay Public Tinnitus (2020), the artist Polina Davydenko returns to her hometown of Dobropolje, which lies in the Donetsk region of Ukraine. She tries to gently grasp what is imperceptible in a place where you live your daily life at the moment when it seems so obvious. No wonder the focus […]
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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 […]
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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
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 […]
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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 […]
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Andrea’s fascination with digital images, in which everything existing is increasingly concentrated, combined with an interest in Vilém Flusser’s philosophy often results in projects that combine the philosophical background of the problem with the visuality of digital interfaces or their fragments. The increasingly tangible transformation of society into a digital society brings with it a […]
“Artist Camille Laurelli (…) grew up with Tetris at the golden age of the 80’s and 90’s video games. He has witnessed the lack of imagination of programmers and seen how consoles such as Atari 2600 almost managed to ruin the fun. There was an economic war being fought among video game producers in Western […]
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