DIGITAL FLOWS

  MACT/CACT - 
  Arte Contemporanea Ticino

  5 March – 3 April 2016
  Opening
  Sat 5 March 2016 at 5.30 pm



GIANLUCA ABBATE - MIGUEL ANDRÉS - BARBARA BRUGOLA - KATHARINA GRUZEI - HWAYONG JUNG - CRISTINA OHLMER - MARTA ROBERTI - RIMAS SAKALAUSKAS

Curated by Visualcontainer Milan.

DIGITAL FLOWS is a visual flow that induces the observer to experiment with different levels of awareness of sight, moving along a progressive installation that starts from the peak of visual fascination with numerical data, passes through our sense of disorientation between everyday reality and digital panoramas and ends up illustrating the observer’s own condition by simulating a self-representation.

The video medium has undergone many of what might be termed transitory changes since the seventies, progressing from the yoke of the performing arts to a cross-fertilisation with the then-powerful cathode ray tube TV, when the force of advertising ploughed many a powerful furrow across the market of imagery, a parasite that sucked so much of the lifeblood from video art and artistic language as to surpass them in many cases and induce authors to correct and readjust their – often cannibalistic – aim at the means of production itself.
Video, like photography, is the most immediate documentary mirror of the reality around us that shatters us into the trans-identity of globalism. Since the days when video was essentially experimentation and an antithesis response to the visual experience traceable to painting (we are in the late sixties), in today’s world, where “we’ve already tried everything”, novelty comes paradoxically from the resurgence of digital, which imbues our entire existence with a fixation with socio-global communication that nobody ever necessarily asked for, but that nevertheless induces a new aesthetic model.

DIGITAL FLOWS sets out to outline and highlight this latest phase of video production. This is how the curators, Alessandra Arnò and Paolo Simoni, describe the exhibition and the curatorial choices they have made.
»The image, in its digital transcendence, is now immaterial: it is a bit, a beam of light: it lives among the clouds and passes rapidly through the web of data. So what does that leave us of its ‘inconsistency’ and what is that attracts us towards the video image’s non-materiality: could it be its evocative or illusory potential?«


MACT/CACT
Arte Contemporanea Ticino
Via Tamaro 3 - 6500 Bellinzona
Switzerland
Fri-Sat-Sun from 2.00 to 6.00 p.m.

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