ifa proudly presents four new artworks developed at the Institute for Art in Context at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) as part of the constantly growing web-based project ARE YOU FOR REAL. During a seminar led by curators Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba, a group of artists explored questions around algorithmic systems, which mostly do not depict an “objective” reality.
How do we grasp and interpret what we are seeing and experiencing? Are privileged perspectives becoming more real than others? Who can judge whether something is real? Who is allowed to judge? Can digital space ever be a neutral location?
The participating artists have developed new perspectives and artistic projects reflecting these questions. An augmented-reality video of a mental journey moving between virtual and real worlds. A conversation between three programmed voices as disembodied echoes in digital space, which interweave text, image, and sound to form a speculative reality around their own existence. A web-based questionnaire experience playfully forcing us to give straight binary answers that unveil the absurdities of CAPTCHA requests. And a digital network of fragments from individual histories—visual or textual threads—that serves to visually and conceptually deconstruct linear spacetime, and counteract the ways in which progressive linearity predetermines and flattens our understanding of time, culture, and identity.
Initiated by ifa and curated by Julia Grosse, Paula Nascimento, and Yvette Mutumba, ARE YOU FOR REAL launched in December 2020 and is conceived as a participatory project testing interactive artistic practices. It brings together artists, researchers, filmmakers, writers, and coders to create new works, each offering a different understanding of and approach towards the concept of “reality.” It is about engaging with and visualising the connections between people, thoughts, things, and places that occur through the trading and training of data. It addresses the material and immaterial aspects of the digital, and how both are perceived from the perspectives of various disciplines.
https://areyouforreal.ifa.de/ifa proudly presents four new artworks developed at the Institute for Art in Context at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) as part of the constantly growing web-based project ARE YOU FOR REAL. During a seminar led by curators Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba, a group of artists explored questions around algorithmic systems, which mostly do not depict an “objective” reality.
How do we grasp and interpret what we are seeing and experiencing? Are privileged perspectives becoming more real than others? Who can judge whether something is real? Who is allowed to judge? Can digital space ever be a neutral location?
The participating artists have developed new perspectives and artistic projects reflecting these questions. An augmented-reality video of a mental journey moving between virtual and real worlds. A conversation between three programmed voices as disembodied echoes in digital space, which interweave text, image, and sound to form a speculative reality around their own existence. A web-based questionnaire experience playfully forcing us to give straight binary answers that unveil the absurdities of CAPTCHA requests. And a digital network of fragments from individual histories—visual or textual threads—that serves to visually and conceptually deconstruct linear spacetime, and counteract the ways in which progressive linearity predetermines and flattens our understanding of time, culture, and identity.
Initiated by ifa and curated by Julia Grosse, Paula Nascimento, and Yvette Mutumba, ARE YOU FOR REAL launched in December 2020 and is conceived as a participatory project testing interactive artistic practices. It brings together artists, researchers, filmmakers, writers, and coders to create new works, each offering a different understanding of and approach towards the concept of “reality.” It is about engaging with and visualising the connections between people, thoughts, things, and places that occur through the trading and training of data. It addresses the material and immaterial aspects of the digital, and how both are perceived from the perspectives of various disciplines.