Internet Festival 2020 EDITION
This year it seemed like it was loading every day, we are waiting for it to finally load and reveal a new landscape to us. Our screen became a third eye, that is why in this edition of the Festival we encourage artists to show those works that are still being uploaded, “work in progress” as a final piece, those beautiful errors, pixelated images, that we find in our digital landscapes, pieces that are broken, thus connecting with our current reality, where we can find beauty in the uncertainty and spontaneity of what may or may not be.
ARTISTS
@maria.mavropoulou @raredankart @camille.louison. @cristinacandela @writtenimage @nstgrm.sa.cha @carolina_toncovich
Curators: Charles Westerman & Carolina Kleine Samson
@maria.mavropoulou
When we let our brightness be the brightness of the screens, we let them illuminate us to immerse ourselves in an opacity of bodies that are reflected. Our fingers glide across the smoothness of the screen loading information with each interaction. The Loading Festival edition featured the work of MARIA MAVROPOULOU, an artist who explores the intimate relationships that occur between the users and their devices and highlights the solitude of the object, after the human touch. What are those devices doing in our pockets and our personal spaces? What is their role in our lives. What is the message they are transferring? This time we present works from the Family Portraits, Typology of Waiting and Image Eaters series.
Family portraits “The screens of the connectible devices we use are the only way we can have access to this parallel man-made universe, the Internet. Our lives have changed, from the simplest task to the way we perceive the world around us”
Typology of Waiting. “We are constantly in a big hurry it seems. There’s nothing more annoying than this endlessly turning loaders filing in the gap between two virtual spaces.In the physical space we have no sign for waiting, but don’t we constantly wait for something? It seems to me that waiting is the most permanent situation we find ourselves into”
Image Eaters “Tries to focuse in a more poetic way on image making and image distribution in an era that is dominated by it”
