Echolocation
Fak’ugesi Digital Africa Festival Tshimologong Braamfontein, Johannesburg, South AfricaCurator: Tegan Bristow
Solo show
Fak'ugesi, Johannesburg
Fak'ugesi, Johannesburg
Swiss artist Marc Lee brings real time storytelling to Fak’ugesi
Acclaimed Swiss digital artist Marc Lee presents Echo/Location, a new project developed specifically for the 2018 edition of the Fak’ugesi digital arts festival, with whom we also mark the triple anniversary of our Cairo (30 years), Delhi (10 years) and Johannesburg (20 years) offices through a residency involving young digital artists from Egypt, India, Mali, Zimbabwe and South Africa.
“We live in a globalised world that is becoming increasingly homogeneous. Languages, plant and animal species are continuously decreasing. Supermarkets, buildings and cities look more and more alike. The work deals with cultural diversity on the African continent and at the same time with the powerful homogenising forces that are being exerted on this diversity also in the social-digital realm, and poses questions about the meaning of this ever-increasing flattening of forms and images.”
In “Echo/Location” users can choose any location in Africa and move through stories posted from that geographic point by others on social networks like YouTube, Instagram and Twitter. Here these personal impressions are streamed in real time like windows to our changing world. The viewer participates in the social movements of our time and makes a journey into constantly new image and sound collages in which one experiences local, cultural and linguistic differences and at the same time more and more points of confluence and echo.
Marc Lee will also be running a Master Class in the context of the Fak’ugesi festival, on the 31st of August at 1:30pm at the Tshimologong Precinct.
Exhibited Artwork
Echolocation – Mapping the Free Flow of Information Around the World in Realtime
Interactive Net-Based Multi Screen InstallationIn Echolocation users can choose any location on a map and move through stories posted from there by others on social networks like YouTube, Flickr and Twitter. Here these personal impressions are streamed in real time like windows to our changing world. The viewer participates in the social movements of our time and makes a journey into constantly new image and sound collages in which one experiences more …
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