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The tools of visual and audio postproduction, 3D modelling software and generative algorithms have become so integral to our daily experience of the world that we often hardly acknowledge their presence. Yet something fundamental is happening to the (technical) image, as it gradually drifts away from its representational function, ceasing to be the image of “something”, a record, or some distorted “reflection” of the reality preceding it. Instead, it produces a reality of its own which, far beyond the edge of the screen, merges as one with the very world we once hoped to fix with(in) the image.
Zach Blas, an American artist, writer and filmmaker, deals with topics such as politics, contemporary technologies, or queer theories. As part of his artistic work, he moves from theoretical research to conceptualism to science fiction. He has been working on Internet and Information Technology for a long time and on how these resources are used to track or manage individuals and companies.
Confrontations in public space are becoming more virulent. Protests gain traction, social tension is on the rise. Tension as a reaction to threat, an emotional roller coaster of strong convictions. The truth of convictions is shored up by shared emotional experience. Anger, loss of hope, feelings of remorse, anxiety; the emotional ties of mutuality.
Josef Holý focuses on the topics of information warfare, disinformation and the influence of algorithms of technological giants on our lives. How are and have these themes been reflected among artists working with moving image? The depiction of artificial intelligence or artificial humans has a fairly firm place in the history of visual art and is associated with many ethical issues that have realistically impacted us today.
The online environment often appears to us as a space of timelessness. A space where artifacts of the past accumulate regardless of their original context and where they disappear again after satisfying immediate demand. But can the (post)digital landscape be used to revive lost, missing or displaced media, objects, actors or interfaces? A thematic collection of audiovisual essays allows us to understand the online space as a labyrinth of fragments and traces of analogue and digital histories that can be speculatively ''reconfigured'' to play out surprising exchanges between ''then'' and ''now'' as well as to create alternative or unrealized futures.