enter action
digital art now
The exhibition ENTER ACTION - Digital Art Now, at the ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, is a digital journey in to works by a group of artists who enjoy international recognition. In the crossover between art and technology their works reflect upon the increasing influence on the picture of the world that the media technology has today.
Common to the works represented at ENTER ACTION - Digital Art Now is that they use digital technologies and the exhibition presents interactive installations, projections, works of light and sound and internet based art.
Representing a high value of experience ENTER ACTION - Digital Art Now challenge a traditional conception of both viewer and work. Some of the works register the guests present and change character according to the conduct of the guests.
ENTER ACTION - Digital Art Now visualizes the capacities of the computer and the internet which modify our perception of categories as time, space, body and relations. The exhibition focuses on how the new technologies affect our lives, experiences and our perceptions of the world. ...
The Exhibition
Digital art is no longer a niche in the world of art. On the contrary, it is very much on the advance in major museums all over the world – for instance at ARoS, which with ENTER ACTION – Digital Art Now is mounting the first major exhibition of its kind in Denmark. For this exhibition it has been possible to acquire major works by the most progressive digital artists from a large number of countries in Europe, the USA, Central America and Australia, all of whom have agreed to take part in the exhibition, represents the finest work in the realm of digital art.
Beitrag von Christa Sommerer und Laurent Mignonneau
„Life Writer“
The centerpiece of the interactive work „Life Writer“ is an antiquated mechanical desktop typewriter imbued with surreal contradoctions. It is a functional artifact but it has no ink ribbon to make an imprint. Instead, a white sheet of paper hovers above it capturing projected light that illuminates a manuscript of digitally etched lettering. ...
Book: 149 pages, with pictures
Published: 2009
Language: English, Danish
ISBN: 9788792184016
