SPAM PROJECT
ISSUE 01:
'I forgot the password and my Doppelgänger will destroy me'
How confortable you feel about your personal content been spread all over the network?
Probably is not a problem for you, because you don´t have nothing to hide.
You are a very average citizen. Right? Ok. Now imagine all your very carefully constructed image
that took so long to figure out, not only for the rest of the world but for yourself, is taken by your very enemy.
The part of you that speaks to you in the worst moments, highlighting those mistakes the other part of you
always try to get rid of and move on. Well, s/he has the password to acces all that mistakes and make with it
what ever collage fits the best to destroy you, and you don´t. But who cares about identity this days, anyway..
ISSUE 01:
'I forgot the password and my Doppelgänger will destroy me'
How confortable you feel about your personal content been spread all over the network? Probably is not a problem for you, because you don´t have nothing to hide. You are a very average citizen. Right? Ok. Now imagine all your very carefully constructed image that took so long to figure out, not only for the rest of the world but for yourself, is taken by your very enemy. The part of you that speaks to you in the worst moments, highlighting those mistakes the other part of you always try to get rid of and move on. Well, s/he has the password to acces all that mistakes and make with it what ever collage fits the best to destroy you, and you don´t. But who cares about identity this days, anyway..
artists managment and concept by Markus Rico
concept, development and adaptation of the pieces to three.js by Carolina Romano
Yoshihide Sodeoka is a multidisciplinary artist and musician from Yokohama, Japan, who’s lived in New York for more than two decades. Sodeoka’s neo-psychedelic work with video, GIFs and print simultaneously inhabits the world of fine art, music (he’s collaborated with bands like Tame Impala, Yeasayer and The Presets), fashion (creating art prints for brands and magazines like Sandro Paris, WAD magazine), and advertising (developing projects with brands like Apple and Nike).
Adam Ferriss was born in Richmond, VA in 1988. After receiving a BFA from The Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD he relocated to Los Angeles, CA where he currently resides. He is currently enrolled in the Design Media Arts program at UCLA where he expects to graduate with an MFA in 2016.
Anna Blumenkranz is a media artist and educator, whose work explores the intersection of visual arts, critical approach towards technology and its social structures. Her key interests include physical computing and wearable technology, media archaeology and glitch art. She has collaborated with a range of institutions, communities and universities in London and Munich (Victoria & Albert Museum, Chelsea College of Arts, Bayerisches Nationmuseum, LMU, Lothringer13, PLATFORM, SPIELkultur, KJR, MzTEK – a London-based organisation which encourages women to engage with technology, Time and Talents Social community, Cultural Centre GOROD, etc).
Brian House is a media artist whose work traverses alternative geographies, experimental music, and a critical data practice. He is interested in the contingent qualities of information and how we experience time in network culture. By constructing embodied, participatory systems, he seeks to negotiate between algorithms and the rhythms of everyday life.
Peter Burr (b. 1980) is an artist from Brooklyn, NY, USA. His work has been presented in a variety of spaces including floating cinemas, cartoon schools, outdoor squats, libraries, national museums and more. He is one half of the cartoon group Hooliganship and the founder of Cartune Xprez, an animation project that is part video label, part live theater, part weird gang, and part touring road show.
Sabrina Ratté (Canada, 1982) is a Montreal based visual artist, mainly working in the field of video. She completed a BFA and a MFA degree in the film Production Program of Concordia University in Montreal. Ratté’s video work explores the possibilities of mixing together a diverse array of tools and techniques in order to create virtual environments where architecture and landscapes fall into abstraction. Her work is also inspired by the relationship between electronic music and the video image, and she often collaborates with musicians for finished pieces as well as in live settings.
Eva Papamargariti (b.1987) is a Greek architect (received Diploma of Architecture and Engineering from the Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly, 2012) and new media artist. She is currently attending a Master's Degree course in Visual Communication Design, at Royal College of Art, London. Her projects focus on time-based media (digital installations, video, gif animations etc), architecture and graphic design. She is interested in the creation of 2d/3d digital spaces, forms and geometries which can provoke different concepts, narrations and atmospheres each time, using a variety of methods, tools and programs. The themes of motion, destruction and distortion appear often to her work.
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