Digital Realities / Analog Feelings
We live in a constant stream of images and algorithms that shape not only what we see, but how we perceive, remember and represent ourselves. Digital Realities / Analog Feelings takes the phrase “Touch some grass” literally and asks what happens when our bodies becomes a site of knowledge in a world already organised by images.
Thirteen student positions work at this threshold, in the friction between screen and sensation. Digital material is translated back into matter, sensors register and withdraw from the viewer, and slow acts of artisan craftsmanship resist the logic of optimisation. Nature appears throughout, but never unmediated: it is simulated, recollected and poetically exaggerated.
The exhibition does not resolve this relation. It makes its ambivalence tangible.
Developed collectively by students of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna as part of the workshop “Exhibition Practice – Production and Management II.”
An exhibition with Yonatan Aharoni, Eléonore Ines Archambeault, Lidya Delfin Eraslan, Karinna Farkas, Haleh Gheljighi, Natalia del Mar Kasik, Sandra Lazányi, Karina Magomedova, Maria Pylypenko, Alexandra Rudolph, Julia Stakhorska, Colin Caspar Willekes, Gyuri Yang, and Kihoon Yoo.
Curated by Wang Cui, Nadja Gossenauer, Yoojin Lee, Mia Öhler, Nina Rechberg, and Polina Sokolova.