April–September 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
I’ve been acquainted with the performance work of Klarisa Kleinerová and Jan Kratochvila for quite some time. In one of their earliest pieces made as their relationship was at its inception they stand face to face in a room in an apartment, shave each others heads and then through a technique of licking each others […]
Tags: KON.DOM, Klarisa Kleinerová, Jan Kratochvíla, Jennifer De Felice, review
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 […]
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The virtual exhibition Unleashing Screensaver has been exhibited on the following IRL sites: Flatscreen in Macy Art Gallery, Teachers College, Columbia University New York Permanent kiosk at Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara Permanent kiosk at Faculty of Interactive Media Design, ArtEZ, Arnhem Computer room at Faculty of Education, Masaryk University in Brno Installation […]
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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!
Tags: PAF, amp, preloader, PAFScreenSaver, competition
Exhibition Kinetics of Image (Max Capacity) was mentioned in text on PAF 2013 in Flash Art Czech and Slovak Edition. Screen Saver Gallery showing Max Capacity’s work was exhibited on several computers installed in the festival centre of 12th PAF – Festival of Film Animation and contemporary art in Olomouc, Czech Republic, 5. – 8. 12. 2013. More […]
Tags: flash art, max capacity, written about