In the digital environment there are essentially two ways of looking on
artistic creation: the first (widespread) resembles the photographic and
videographic production, ie, sees digital as more a process than a
product or purpose. For artists who are identified with this type of
procedure, face the computer equipment as a tool, whose product is
always an object: a printed photograph, a CD, DVD. So, do not view
digital media as an end but as a means by which they produce their
works. Thus, this type of artists are not fully digital. They move
freely between two worlds, the digital and the objectual, the first
depending on the other.
Examples of this are the first manifestations of electronic art,
which, for example, in the case of Nam June Paik, deal with electronic
procedures on their own equipment: ie Paik videos appeared not separated
from the equipment in which they were presented. These were part of the
work. In a sense one could say that the video gave consistency to the
presentation of the device (in this case the television). Or was it the
opposite?
Another type of artist is the one that moves entirely in the
digital medium. These are the artists that produce exclusively their
work on / by digital means.
The UAVM and FONLAD FESTIVAL
resolved in its 4th collaboration to present an exhibition
simultaneously virtual and physical: virtual, as all works will be
presented in the digital space of the Virtual Museum; physic, because
these same works are reinterpreted by the artists (in partnership with
Curator’s Festival / Museum) and presented on physical media, giving it a
new dimension; works that could be presented in television screens,
computer monitors, digital photo frames, projected against walls,
ceilings, floors, trunks, ladders, mirrored surfaces or printed on
several media, from photo paper to stickers / vinyl, etc.
ART SUR-FACES
April 27 - july 31, 2013
www.uavm.net
