Digitale Abstraktionen

Category: Exhibition
Year: 2016
Institution: HeK Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel, Basel
Comment: The exhibition entitled Digital Abstraktionen is on view at the Basel House of Electronic Arts (HeK) in April and May 2016. The exhibition is curated by Alexandra Adler and Reinhard Storz.The project Digital Abstraction explores abstract works of digital contemporary art and how they relate to their predecessors in the history of modern art. The research focuses on moving works based on mathematical principles, specifically, works mathematically generated by algorithms or, in iconographic terms, based on circle, line and square, on curves and patterns.One cannot study forms of abstract visual art without wondering how they relate to the world. Are they representations of real things and if so, in what way? Or do they only lay claim to the status of form without any semiotic implications? Concepts of abstract art over the past 100 years have offered a wide range of answers to these questions. The referential aspect is a core concern of all abstract visual art and therefore crucial to our study as well.