Curator: Benjamin Weill
Datascape: what you see may not be what you get*
Artists: Burak Ar?kan, Angela Bulloch, David Claerbout, Ryoji Ikeda, Michael Najjar, Enrique Radigales, Thomas Ruff, Karin Sander, Charles Sandison, Pablo Valbuena
From realistic renderings to imagined environments, painters have - for centuries - made the landscape their subject, or used it as a backdrop for portraiture. The artists who participate in this exhibition somehow perpetuate this tradition of depicting our environment – whether real or enhanced by imagination. In doing so, they also reflect upon the intricate blend of visual information and the data enhancement that has modified our perception of the world. Each take a different approach, and reveal various aspects of the shifts brought by technology to the landscape.
What does the naked eye see? Are we interpreting what we see the same way our predecessors did? The landscape has become an evermore complex construct, a composite that is as much an interface as are our multiple screens (telephones, computers, etc.), which in turn tend to increasingly look like landscapes. It is noteworthy that the Japanese language refers to “nature” as the set of elements that compose the stage of our daily lives: it is a blend of pre-existing and human-made components. Similarly, one could conceive of the landscape as the context for our existence, and hence, reconsider that which is nature and that which is information. This "enhanced reality" is a new landscape... a datascape.
*this subtitle refers to the famous WYSIWYG (What Y See Is What You Get) concept, which presided over the development of the graphic interfaces we have all become accustomed to encounter on all the screens that we operate routinely.
Curator: Benjamin Weill
Datascape: what you see may not be what you get*
Artists: Burak Ar?kan, Angela Bulloch, David Claerbout, Ryoji Ikeda, Michael Najjar, Enrique Radigales, Thomas Ruff, Karin Sander, Charles Sandison, Pablo Valbuena
From realistic renderings to imagined environments, painters have - for centuries - made the landscape their subject, or used it as a backdrop for portraiture. The artists who participate in this exhibition somehow perpetuate this tradition of depicting our environment – whether real or enhanced by imagination. In doing so, they also reflect upon the intricate blend of visual information and the data enhancement that has modified our perception of the world. Each take a different approach, and reveal various aspects of the shifts brought by technology to the landscape.
What does the naked eye see? Are we interpreting what we see the same way our predecessors did? The landscape has become an evermore complex construct, a composite that is as much an interface as are our multiple screens (telephones, computers, etc.), which in turn tend to increasingly look like landscapes. It is noteworthy that the Japanese language refers to “nature” as the set of elements that compose the stage of our daily lives: it is a blend of pre-existing and human-made components. Similarly, one could conceive of the landscape as the context for our existence, and hence, reconsider that which is nature and that which is information. This "enhanced reality" is a new landscape... a datascape.
*this subtitle refers to the famous WYSIWYG (What Y See Is What You Get) concept, which presided over the development of the graphic interfaces we have all become accustomed to encounter on all the screens that we operate routinely.
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