DeadPlanetFine* featured @ Screengrab6, International Media Arts Award in Townsville, Australia

Exhibition Dates:

20 September - 26 October 2014

Exhibition Venues:
Pinnacles Gallery Riverway Arts Centre, 20 Village Blvd

Opening Hours: Tuesday - Sunday: 10am - 5pm

eMerge Gallery Building 300, JCU Douglas Campus, Townsville

Opening Hours: Monday - Friday: 8.30am - 4pm

 

2014 Finalists

Artist/s	Title	Year	Country	Venue
Andrew Chalmers & Oliver Ellmers	godComplex	2013	New Zealand and Australia	Pinnacles Gallery
David Chesworth and Sonia Leber	We Are Printers Too	2013	Australia	Pinnacles Gallery
Coalfather Industries	Seem	2014	USA	Pinnacles Gallery
Maia Conran	Trace	2014	United Kingdom	eMerge Gallery
Callum Cooper	Constant and the Flux	2012	United Kingdom and Australia	Pinnacles Gallery
Will Copps	Target	2014	Germany	eMerge Gallery
Zlatko Ćosić, Eleanor Dubinsky and Laura Ferro	Shifted	2014	USA	Pinnacles Gallery
Francesca Fini	WHITE SUGAR	2013	Italy	Pinnacles Gallery
Parisa Ghaderi	Keep Calm	2014	USA	Pinnacles Gallery
Brooke Griffin	Instruction to Hearing Persons Desiring a Deaf Man	2014	USA	Pinnacles Gallery
Paul Harrison	Deviant Dream: Part I	2014	United Kingdom	Pinnacles Gallery
Stephen Hilyard	Waterfall	2013	USA	eMerge Gallery
Iaroslav Ianovskyi	On the Horse	2014	Ukraine	Pinnacles Gallery
IOCOSE	Spinning the Planet	2013	Italy, Germany and United Kingdom	Pinnacles Gallery
Anantha Krishnan	My Internal and External World	2014	India	Pinnacles Gallery
Tang Kwok-hin	Present <> 3/18,Central and Western District	2012	Hong Kong	Pinnacles Gallery
Mauri Lehtonen	Jump	2014	Czech Republic	Pinnacles Gallery
Justin Lincoln	One Image After Another	2014	USA	Pinnacles Gallery
Justin Lincoln	SlipStream 2	2014	USA	eMerge Gallery
Malcolm Litson	SYNTAX	2012	United Kingdom	Pinnacles Gallery
Emily McFarland	Zabriskie Point Reversed	2014	United Kingdom	Pinnacles Gallery
Lawrence F Mesich	A Building Explains Itself	2014	USA	Pinnacles Gallery
Jonathan Monaghan	Office	2013	USA	Pinnacles Gallery
Katarzyna Parejko	WIATR/ODDECH [WIND/BREATH]	2014	Poland	Pinnacles Gallery
Stuart Pound	Shooting Loops	2013	United Kingdom	Pinnacles Gallery
Silja Puranen	Pigwalk	2014	Finland	Pinnacles Gallery
Arya Sukapura Putra	Passage (loco-motion)	2014	Indonesia	Pinnacles Gallery
Johan Rijpma	Descent	2014	Netherlands	Pinnacles Gallery
Dénes Ruzsa and Fruzsina Spitzer	Job Interview	2014	Hungary	Pinnacles Gallery
Antoine Schmitt	7 billion pixels	2013	France	eMerge Gallery
Joana Silva	Black Horse	2013	United Kingdom	Pinnacles Gallery
Billy Sims	Tempo Rubato	2014	USA	Pinnacles Gallery
Rose Staff	The Space Between Us	2014	Australia	eMerge Gallery
Theodore Tagholm	Plain Sight	2013	United Kingdom	Pinnacles Gallery
Luhsun Tan	Twilight Shimmer	2014	Australia	Pinnacles Gallery
David Theobald	Jingle Bells	2013	United Kingdom	Pinnacles Gallery
Jurgen Trautwein	DeadPlanetFine*	2014	USA	Pinnacles Gallery
Anna-Lena Tsutsui	Loops	2014	France	eMerge Gallery
Ivar Veermäe	Crystal Computing (Google Inc., St. Ghislain)	2014	Germany	Pinnacles Gallery
Yandell Walton	Remains	2013	Australia	Pinnacles Gallery

2014 Theme: Velocity

Change. At speed. Everywhere.

image: NASA & ASF (2000) Lambert Glacier Velocity Map (asf.alaska.edu)

The rushing up of the earth from below as we leap into the unknown is a strong pervasive force.The comings and goings of objects, the rhizomatic fever of life - of memories and of perception - is the stuff of both nature and the machine but also the stuff of change - of a compelling need to move forward, at pace. Since the millennium we have been moving away in linear time from the trauma of the 20th century, history accumulating behind us as we hurtle towards an undefined future.Yet there also seems to be a reductive velocity at work, the future appears to be expanding only in our mind’s eye - in the stories we tell ourselves, in the frames of the cinematic moment and the pixels of our most fantastic dreaming. If we stand still long enough the hyper-reality becomes apparent. Information is expanding at an exponential rate – images, sound and text – authoring a new present-future space of mobility, of interconnectedness and most of all of rapid accelerating change. Equal parts chaos and perfection – of truth and of fiction - a dark and light exposure.

It is the making of us, this velocity of things. It is both our return to Earth and our mastery of its physics. Our identity and our collective history is fast becoming a vast data repository of machine vision - a rapid prototyping of our future selves.Financial transactions, personal communications, intimate moments exist inside this simulation of machine speed.Artificial intelligence observes, correlates, measures and makes split second decisions on our behalf.Notions of surveillance, fears for our privacy, the dilution of our identity and the voyeuristic connotations of relational databases make up the machine’s vision of us and our world. Can we keep apace of these algorithmic patterns? Can we author new vistas new dreamscapes new directions?

Meanwhile history keeps up a steady persistent pace: the image loops, the velocity increases and the hyper-real resumes its seductive play.

DeadPlanetFine*

DEADplanetFINE* 

An Uber-Wahnsinn paranoid trembling project 

DEADplanetFINE*, is a web 1.0 retro-renaissance remixology project consisting of looped animated mouseover-gif-film-crawls.

DEADplanetFINE*, are animated acid humorous social-commentary-line-drawings interwoven with abstract blink-scrolls, that reflect on the nightmarish state of the world.The project touches issues of war, race, rape, violence, loneliness, torture, sexism, porn, gadgetism, obsenity, power, greed, intoxication, pollution and the human folly in general.

Depending on the movement of the mouse the animations take on various speeds and directions of motion.

DEADplanetFINE*, uses a poly-linguistic-sound-blur-drone. The languages are used for their phonetics and not for the meaning of the words. 

DEADplanetFINE* attempts to expose, in a funny way, the crazy world we live in, which seems to have followed the same principle over the past aeons, which is the perpetual reoccurrence of the same.