Stormy Weather
Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna, AustriaCurator: Katharina Brandl & Claire Hoffmann
Artists: Fragmentin (Laura Perrenoud, David Colombini und Marc Dubois), Total Refusal (Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner and Michael Stumpf), Stefan Karrer, Till Langschied, Yein Lee, Marc Lee, Susanna Flock& Leonhard Müllner, Christiane Peschek, Christoph Wachter & Mathias Jud
Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna
Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna
Political Campaigns filters the latest Twitter, Instagram and YouTube messages that mention the terms "Biden" or "Trump" and weaves them into a wild television show. And it develops an election forecast of which candidate currently has more nominations. Just looking at the Political Campaigns statistic now: during the last 6 hours Trump has more than twice as many nominations. 68% to 32%.
One screen shows an 8 hour recording of the historical US Election Night 2016. Collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur
On the second screen, the 2020 US Election Campaign can be followed live. These two elections are worth comparing!
24/7 Online TV Live Stream https://marclee.io/en/the-show-must-go-on/
The exhibition “Stormy Weather” at Kunstraum Niederoesterreich in Vienna is now open until the 21st of November 2020. Then will travel to Paris at Centre culturel suisse, 06.12.2020 - 24.01.2021.
The exhibition showcases works that survey the field between seemingly ephemeral infrastructures (data clouds) and their concrete manifestations in the real world. How do artists interact with the non-human counterpart, the cloud? Do metaphors or the realities of the cloud become affective carriers themselves in their artistic reception?
Curated by: Katharina Brandl and Claire Hoffmann
Photos credits ©Markus Gradwohl, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich
Exhibited Artwork
The Show Must Go On. Social Media Fights for the Presidency!
Online TV ShowThe US presidential election is a product manufactured for the big stage of TV: here, orchestrated reality TV shows are sold as political debates, and ‘stars’ like Donald Trump conquer the stage by establishing ‘perceived facts’ and telling blatant lies. Political opinion is served as easily digestible nibbles that circulate across the digital channels of social media. Twitter, Facebook more …
Fotomuseum, Winterthur
Fotomuseum, Winterthur
Fotomuseum, Winterthur
Political Campaigns - Battle of Opinion on Social Media
Interactive Net-Based TV ShowIn recent months in Political Campaigns all over the world, the supporters of opposing parties have engaged in fiercely waged wars of images on social media. Elections have also long since ceased to be won on the street or in the traditional media— social networks have become the digital marketplace for political disputation. A new version of Marc Lee’s TV Bot (2004), filters the latest Twitter more …
Paradeplatz, Mannheim
Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna
ZKM, Karlsruhe
Publication
Stormy Weather
Verlag für moderne KunstBook, color, 72 pages, 21 x 15 cm
2020
English, French
by Katharina Brandl, Claire Hoffmann
ISBN 978-3903796157
https://www.vfmk.org/books/stormy-weather, (PDF)
The metaphor and the reality of the 'cloud' are omnipresent in our daily lives. It is not only the place where data are stored but also-by cloud computing, cloud gaming, or cloud streaming-the place where the central functions of computational power and auto-learning artificial intelligence have migrated to. The cloud is not a storage folder-it is our super brain. The exhibition project "Stormy Weather" questions the relationship between the human-made clouds of our present to humans, climate and politics.
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