Questing for Digital Nirvana?
Woodbox, digital screen, acrylic, mouse & looped video
23 x 34.5 x 23.5cm
2012
For me the Internet has always been a physical space. Sometimes I went online for
hours, ‘meditating’ inside the wires, diving into another realm, achieving new feeling
of-subconsciousness, having the power to wonder and the freedom to choose, being
transcendence, and suddenly lost in undefined space. Simulation has changed into
substitution. Reality has become symmetrical. Reality has split in two parts.
This artwork is yet another parody for the globally-celebrated digital culture. As with most
similar mediums before it, the Internet has become a space of escape for many – a new
medium that offers options to real life. As real life is getting too much to take, we can now
log on to another world where everything goes smoothly and circumstances are easier to
be controlled. The possibilities to be lured out of the real world into the artificial ones are
becoming higher and higher every day due to the advanced technology.
Between reality and illusion, between actual and the virtual - the main focus in my artworks
are the spaces in between. One of my major intentions is to deconstruct the experience of
space and objects through a blend of realities. The video images were created to alternately
bring the artwork into relation to the real as well as to the virtual.
hours, ‘meditating’ inside the wires, diving into another realm, achieving new feeling
of-subconsciousness, having the power to wonder and the freedom to choose, being
transcendence, and suddenly lost in undefined space. Simulation has changed into
substitution. Reality has become symmetrical. Reality has split in two parts.
This artwork is yet another parody for the globally-celebrated digital culture. As with most
similar mediums before it, the Internet has become a space of escape for many – a new
medium that offers options to real life. As real life is getting too much to take, we can now
log on to another world where everything goes smoothly and circumstances are easier to
be controlled. The possibilities to be lured out of the real world into the artificial ones are
becoming higher and higher every day due to the advanced technology.
Between reality and illusion, between actual and the virtual - the main focus in my artworks
are the spaces in between. One of my major intentions is to deconstruct the experience of
space and objects through a blend of realities. The video images were created to alternately
bring the artwork into relation to the real as well as to the virtual.
