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Carlos Katastrofsky >
»Objects of desire«, 2005 - 2008
Co-Workers & Funding:
Computer, Shellscript, BildschirmCa. 50x30x15 cm
20052008
http://katastrofsky.cont3xt.net/home/?p=104
Technology
Hardware
objects of desire (2005-2008)title: objects of desire
year: 2005-2008
shellscript on custom made computer
Descriptions & Essays
shellscript on custom made computer
white standard typography on black background
In short intervals, a text sequence appears on the screen of a transparent object with the promising
Sentence by sentence, second by second, with each new beginning a new number and thus, a new piece of art, that is concluded by the words you own me now until you forget about me. The basis of the work is the search for determining parameters for digital art, for their role in the art business and – even more general – for the authorship of artistic works: Is it necessary to touch it and own it at first, in order to define art as such, or is a consecutive number sufficient in order to speak of an original: 1101, 1102, 1103? The self-constructed computer – thus, the transparent object (of desire) – contributes on a formal level its share to the transfer of text-based and ephemeral characteristics of net-art into real space.
exhibited at:
05/12-07/12 2008 interference, mikrogalleriet, Copenhagen, Denmark
10/16-11/15 2008 YOU OWN ME NOW UNTIL YOU FORGET ABOUT ME., Galerija Miklova Hisa, Ribnica, Slovenia.
05/16-06/17 2008 YOU OWN ME NOW UNTIL YOU FORGET ABOUT ME., Mala Galerija (Moderna galerija Ljubljana / Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana), Ljubljana, Slovenia.
06/10-19/10 2007 stimulus/response, Projektraum Sonnensegel, Vienna, Austria
Literature
Sützl, Wolfgang and Geoff Cox, ed. DATA browser 04: Creating Insecurity. Data Browser 04, New York: Autonomedia, 2009.
Lentczner, Mark, ed. Community of Variation. Selections from the Context Free Art Gallery,
2005-2007. Mountain View, CA: Lentczner, Mark, 2008.
Hochrieser, Sabine and Franz Thalmair and Cont3xt.Net and Michael Kargl, ed. Curating Media/Net/Art: Circulating Contexts. Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2007.
Kargl, Michael and Carlos Katastrofsky. Arbeiten 2004-2006: Works 2004-2006. Norderstedt: Books on Demand, 2007.
Exhibitions & Events