Conceived for the American Academy in Rome Cinque Mostre exhibition, this multimedia installation is part of the SIMAGE* series that builds a case for an empire made by and for imagery. It is the ‘empire of image’ that we know today as a mechanical, industrial, social, and even autonomic cosmology. (voice by Jesse Jones)
commissioned by the Bauhaus Centennial. It is inspired by László Moholy-Nagy’s 1924 “Mechanized Eccentric” concept — a new kind of multidisciplinary theater for the senses, that would merge time and space with machine and organism.
*A neologism that stands for the accumulation of many similar images, or typologies.
made in collaboration with Jesse Jones
AirXY, detail is part of a large series of “screenscapes” created by Erik Adigard for a large immersive multimedia installationAirXY, from immaterial to rematerial conceived with Chris Salter is and commissioned by the Venice Architecture Biennale2008. Starting with the realm of screen interfaces and digital data as subject, the screenscapes and floor projections engage visitors passing through the massive Corderie dell’Arsenale. Today we consciously inhabit the screens, sharing them with avatars and metaphors of ourselves the physical world outside of screens. Everything becomes symbolic on the surface of screens, as if machine, human and nature finally became our new reality
Adoriction Clock is one of four installment for Dorito Project which was commissioned for the St Etienne Biennale. It is an exploration focusing on the culture of consumer addiction. What think of as “the Dorito Principle” is pervasive far beyond the realm of fast food and it is now a central factor in the culture of digital addictions. While this phenomenon may promote economic growth it promotes many forms of pollution, and it is symptomatic of our intoxicating relationship with dysfunctional realities and pervasive health problems.
Conceived for Postmasters Gallery Can You Digit exhibition, Funnel is a countdown to Y2K at a time when the AIDS pandemic still took many lives every passing second. It is composed of a series of scenes, each exploring an aspect of the unfolding pandemic, seen as a symbol for various societal breakdowns: Contamination, Diversion, Multiplication and Communion. Together they mix toxic agents, like AZT, corporate greed, and the pervasive spread of misinformation through mass media, with the inherent fear we tend to live with.
