From time to time, ScreenSaverGallery creators and collaborating artists, curators and researchers will focus their attention on broader themes related to digital art and use the ScreenSaverGallery space as a research platform. For further details see below.
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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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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– CLOSED – (Výzva v českém jazyce je níž) The international exhibition project in ScreenSaverGallery accepts digital artwork designed for inhuman or non-human entities. Send your work (maximum 2GB provided by link) to info♘metazoa.org. The deadline is midnight 30th November 2018. The exhibition Inhuman Art takes place from 6th December 2018 to 28th February 2019 in […]
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Whether Krist Wood’s approach of is pure, or metaphorically pure, in his works of art, they are in the positive sense of the word traditional while in the field of new internet technologies. He is a Renaissance man who works in the fields of fine arts, poetry, music, but also science. He currently works at […]
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(5) Braincandy <1 One Swallow 1> screensaver is now open to contribute anonymously one-second videos (mp4): UPLOAD HERE A second is not too little. It can be as eloquent as the blink of an eye, as attractive as a flap of wings and it can contain a whole life. A onesecond video is like an animal […]
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Viliam Slaminka’s Slap! become the WINNER of AUDIENCE AWARD Ladislav Teiml’s regale become the WINNER of JURY AWARD Kateřina Olivová’s Sequence 02 become the WINNER of SPECIAL AWARD #1 Jiří Topínka’s Sekera become the WINNER of SPECIAL AWARD #2 Gratefully thanks to all of Preloader Competion participants, PAF visitors and to PAF itself!
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It is the second time that ScreenSaverGallery, an experimental exhibition space, has appeared on computer screens in the PAF festival press centre. Thanks to this event, the exhibition Animation Beyond Animation will take place not only at PAF, but also on-line all over the world. Ironically this time screensaver animate artistic strategies and visual processes.
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&: Anita, how often do you smoke weed and what do you get from it? Does it connect to your work in any way? A: Hey, I like to smoke, sometimes every day. Even because of the Universe. Things often shift when you’re drunk or stoned, so you can then gather the courage or an […]
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Dominik Podsiadly (b. 1967) is a Polish digital artist living and working in Wrocław. He was kicked out of Akademia Sztuk Pięknych we Wrocławiu (Academy of Fine Arts, Wroclaw) where he studied painting in 1991–1994. In the 1990s, he was a founding member of several informal art groups such as NEUE GOTHIK ART, JUJU HOUSE, […]
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Max Capacity suffers from a severe but well documented case of data-addiction, as well as a fetish for obsolete media and electronics. He currently lives and works on the outskirts of Silicon Valley, California, planning super-villain style revenge on the world. http://maxcapacity.tumblr.com The Kinetics of Image exhibition has been chosen in cooperation with PAF – Festival […]
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