Michael Szpakowski’s work always slices through the plethora of data when you least expect it, reminding us of what is important in this ever-troubled world; contrary to media opinion, people matter. And yet, in this piece, there are no people present, just the simplicity of nature, which seems to ooze a human consciousness. A piano wistfully accompanies you. You can hear and almost feel the wood, the keys plinking, and the air around the music as it plays; it breathes. Intimate echos, spaces between the obvious, the realm that Michael consciously touches upon, the substance of ourselves. An intimate, poignant reality that is unreachable for many artists because of a lack of depth. Drift…
Oculart is a playful and visionary Internet Art piece that transcends the every day, using Flash in a way that stuns one’s expectations and emotional reasoning. One cannot help but get lost and caught up in its seemingly never-ending mesmerization. With an accompanying soundtrack reminiscent of Holger Czuckay’s ‘cannabis’, originally inspired by Stockhausen, slow hybrid, layered soundscapes with distant voices haunting the mind. It’s like hearing the lost souls of chanting transubstantiated beauty, wrapped with a sense of foreboding, shadowed with the inevitable end. Oculart is a fascinating and surreal experience, declaring a kind of honest visceralness. Mixing dreams, images of objects and people, with poetic text entwined within the structure of the interactive site. A psychological and seductive experience that leaves you with a feeling of elation, beauty, darkness and that awkward bedfellow – fear.
I’ll show you mine if you show me yours!
When sitting at a friend or colleague’s computer, have you ever “accidentally” had a quick nose at a few extra files? Do the insides of peoples’ computers reflect their minds to such an extent they become a “persona peep” show? Marc Garrett ponders PCs and Porn in his latest project [HaRdWaRe], a fusion of images, sound, Java and perhaps jouissance. Are you prepared, as he asks: “Welcome to the …secret grotto that other people seldom see. Look inside my computer & ask yourself, what if I was looking inside of yours?” Dirty Mac is optional!
Fascinum by Christophe Bruno lives on the Yahoo portal. It shows the pictures from the daily news most viewed on national Yahoo websites. Compiling subjects that fascinate different countries worldwide, juxtaposed in real-time. Displaying the pictures most viewed [ranking from 1 to 10] on different national Yahoo portals.
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