2011.
Single-channel video installation; movement sensor, PC;
Duration: 1'35''.
Hashterms
The general human question infinitely sinks in the depths of a sequence of virtual space architecture. Each new mouse click takes us away from an answer and question, just as each following step of the development of media environment and virtualization moves us further away from the understanding of what makes reality real.
As the viewer approaches the video installation consisting of a computer standing on a typical office desk, the screen turns on and starts playing the video: viewer sees computer’s desktop, with the folder called ‘the sense of existence', the cursor moves to the folder and opens it up, a new window opens with another few folders of sub-categories... video continues …’ A question of vital importance to humanity is lost in ordered labyrinths of virtual space.
The store’s staff member without suspect took back the T-shirt and refunded the artist with his money. The next day the artist returned to the store to find that, his subsequently self-modified T-shirt, was now on sale again complete with reattached back magnetic anti-theft tag. The T-shirt’s new guise had even prompted the store to display it in an even more prominent space on the clothes rack. A series of similar events has since been conducted.
'Ascending Order' film. 2015
Unfolding Installation View at MAMM, Moscow, RUS, 2011.
2011.
Single-channel video installation; movement sensor, PC;
Duration: 1'35''.
Hashterms
The general human question infinitely sinks in the depths of a sequence of virtual space architecture. Each new mouse click takes us away from an answer and question, just as each following step of the development of media environment and virtualization moves us further away from the understanding of what makes reality real.
As the viewer approaches the video installation consisting of a computer standing on a typical office desk, the screen turns on and starts playing the video: viewer sees computer’s desktop, with the folder called ‘the sense of existence', the cursor moves to the folder and opens it up, a new window opens with another few folders of sub-categories... video continues …’ A question of vital importance to humanity is lost in ordered labyrinths of virtual space.
The store’s staff member without suspect took back the T-shirt and refunded the artist with his money. The next day the artist returned to the store to find that, his subsequently self-modified T-shirt, was now on sale again complete with reattached back magnetic anti-theft tag. The T-shirt’s new guise had even prompted the store to display it in an even more prominent space on the clothes rack. A series of similar events has since been conducted.
'Ascending Order' film. 2015
Unfolding Installation View at MAMM, Moscow, RUS, 2011.
Tokyo, Mishuku, JPN
Vienna, Neubau, AUT
Egor Kraft – artist-researcher, founder
Anna Kraft – researcher, director
mail[at]kraft.studio
Tokyo, Mishuku, JPN
Vienna, Neubau, AUT
mail[at]kraft.studio
Egor Kraft – artist-researcher, founder
Anna Kraft – researcher, director
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