Limited Limitlessness - new findings in primitive digital art - Opening and Performances Friday 20. July 20.00 / @ LEAP

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Opening and Performances Friday 20.07.2012, 20:00

Exhibition   21.07.-03.08., 12:00-18:00 Wed-Sat

Free Entry (or donate what you like)

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*Limited Limitlessness - new findings in primitive digital art*

Following the utopic high of the nascent cyber age in the 1990s came a
natural
 slump in the emotional well-being of the subjects of the digital era.  The
tireless increases in speed and efficiency, ever sleeker interfaces and
ever smaller devices, the spoilt children of this epoch no longer needed
 to
economise with time and memory, as their mothers and fathers did.
Plentiful memory space and processor speed, not to mention the
“information” which
is stored, duplicated and re-distributed via innumerous communication paths
creates a vast horizon of possibilities which we now have at our
fingertips.  Yet
instead of inducing the elation expected of these bountiful resources,
their
it seems to often stifle in its endlessness.

Aware of the technological superiority of their computer companions, humans
have begun to notice an unerring tendency, a savvy post-humanism which
seeks
to recompensate lost essences by favouring the indiscreet over the
discrete.
At the same time, the hypocrisy is clear as the everyday dependence on our
technological devices increases; a love-hate man-machine relationship. Such
is the state of digital existentialism which contributes heavily to today’s
first world
anxieties. Techno-pornographic media arts accentuate this simultaneous
fascination and disgust which presents itself as virtually unavoidable.

The exhibition “Limited Limitlessness - New findings in primitive digital
art” aims to expose these internal contradictions as well as embrace that
 which technology cannot or does not do. Amidst the practice of sterile
media art,
we find ourselves both as critical recipients and as propagators thereof.
 The works
in the exhibition explore aspects of the artists’ own primitive urges
within
computer-based art.

AEAEAEAE <http://www.aeaeaeae.com/> & Stian Korntved
Ruud<http://www.stiankorntvedruud.com/>
 , Yair Elazar Glotman <http://soundcloud.com/blessed-initiative>,
Annie Goh<http://picnoleptics.blogspot.de/>
, Sascha Hanse <http://www.saschahanse.com/>, Petja
Ivanova<http://www.petjaivanova.com/>

Karin Lustenberger <http://www.karinlustenberger.ch/>, Tobias
Purfürst<http://www.remoterepublic.net/>
,  and Pierce Warnecke <http://piercewarnecke.com/>

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