Curator: Alex Adriaansens
Date:8/11~10/7/2007
The exhibition is very interesting and meaningful.Many programs are thought-provoking,such as"The Catalogue" by Chris Dakley."how would you face a world in which you have become catalogued data that could be examined and read?".In this generation,everyone could be monitored,if you just watch "The Bourne Ultimatum"or "Enemy of the State"that would let you feel deep after you see this program.Another"Feed" by shane cooper which symbolize couch potato that eat TV dinners.
about exhibition
Electronic media as video, television, radio, film and the internet are closely intertwined with our understanding of history. These time based media function as our collective memory. Our understanding of history is also closely related to the way we collect and organize information, and retrieve meaning and knowledge from information stored in archives and databases. But in our digital and networked age information isn't solely a means to retrospectively look back into the past, it has become an essential element for acting and interacting in the present. Nowadays we are living IN databases and archives since all our actions are monitored, stored and interpreted and are used to predict future behavior of individuals and groups. Interaction in this perspective tends to become instrumental to economic, social or political agendas, while interaction in principle is a much more rich process leading to often unforeseen results producing social and cultural variation, and in creative practices to new forms and forms of expression.
