WRO 01: Screens / raise of Cyberspace

Category

Exhibition

Year

2001

Institution

WRO Center for Media Art Foundation, Wroclaw

Comment

The leading theme of the WRO 01 Biennale, SCREENS expresses the character of the media art's present state. On one hand it seems appealed by fast development of cognitive horisons and expression of new communication spaces, and on the other hand is closely tied to SCREENS (computer, television, projection ones), which presence is common to triviality, and which restrict the horisons with their aesthetics of inventions that are somewhat out-of date, yet still indispensable and irreplaceable. A lecture by Jaron Lanier, on the subject of technology and media art during the WRO2000@kultura held in December has become a motto of this year's biennial. In computer, art is most naturally at home. inside a framework of whatever interaction device the computer provides, such the computer projector creating an image or the computer web page. It presents a framework naturally because it's a little self-contained universe. And yet the only way that computers can regain the contactwith fundamental mystery that is naturally present when you rork with phisical paint or the clarinet. The only way you can regain that mystery is by using the computer as a means to connect two people together, so that the mystery feel is that of the other person. (source: http://wro01.wrocenter.pl/html/wro01_en.html)