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blockchain (like 0xOmega).
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in the sky. Is playing Super Mario 64 in that sense a religious experience?
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MM: Yeah, for sure. In a tablet painting the building up and layering of the painting
is often made through a video of a series of gestures and colour choices, instead of the
materiality there is a literal visual archive of the gestures and choices taken into account
EM : I wanted to ask while creating the painting. I also feel like one way digital and analogue painting differ
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you some questions about is in the amount of pure information or data they can hold, much like in the sense of
your digital painting Ville Kallio, 2018 analog and digital sound for example in a digital painting you can zoom in to a certain
practice. I guess the first VIBRANT MATU-
extent until all you see is huge pixels, or if its vector-based, you see a bunch of lines. In
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thing that comes to mind SHOW the material world you can zoom in until you see the molecules making up the paint-
with your digital painting ing, and behind that an immense, immaterial void. Is it the void that you find interest-
is the move to work with artists - Ville Kallio,
Bora Akinciturk ing and is it that void that you want to bring into the digital/internet/electronic world?
digital materialities and curated by Christina
manufacturing processes Gigliotti
and how the metaphysics VK: The material-immaterial distinction as it relates to this doesn’t really make
of painting artifice chang- any sense to me. You’re right that when you zoom in all you see is pixels, but that’s a prop-
es. The mineral properties erty of how the computer processes the data and transmits the image to the screen. If you
of the pigment, oils, waxes zoom in more (metaphorically) you’ll find that it’s all electrical charges flowing through
and cloth are replaced by copper wiring, nanoscale transistors etc. Even most of what we know as the internet runs
rendered colour spaces, in massive data centers that produce tons of heat, very much like factories. It’s not really any
pixels and the digital in- less material than the production of say, steel. In this sense I think the void is already there.
terface constituted up by
numbers and data which
radically changes the
form of painting , its ar-
chiving and archeology. I
get a sense this change is
important to you and the
ethos of your practice so
I wanted to hear some of
your thoughts and ideas
about this transference.
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EM: Your sculptural and installation work seems like spillage from the simulated,
as if the gap between the digital is spewing into the physical in a very urgent and abject
Left way. Have you always worked with these two realms as intersecting? So many digital
artists work with the screen space in a fairly rudimentary way, only conceptualising it
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within obvious reason say with plush seating arrangements or projected surfaces. In
ADULT SHOW your installations the sculptural is not simply a vessel but a mirror phase zone where
the same digital interrogrations are are applied to meatspace - it is doing the same
artists - Ville Kallio, Bora
Akinciturk
thing but in another realm. I see it as not really a proscenium but a part of two parts
curated by Christina Gigliotti that look at each other and themselves. This provoking the physics of space and time
both digital and analogue opens up what I sort of see as a void portal between existing
and not existing and I wondered how this came about, if it was natural progression for
your practice and what you are seeking by interrogating the two zones as self reflexive.
VK: I don’t think it’s just my work, but something that’s happening everywhere
and at an accelerating rate. Accessing the cyberspace may have been more like opening
some kind of portal at an earlier time, but now it feels more like an unlocked door that just
needs to be knocked a bit for it to fly open. The mush and gunk is always packed against
the door waiting cover you up. We’re all data plumbers waiting for the septic tank to blow
up in our faces now. My installation work and how it relates to this is I suppose all about
just applying the things I’ve learned while navigating the feces-flows of the internet into
the more traditionally spatial reality of the gallery space. It’s all very intuitive and means
to an end, like I don’t think I’m necessarily actively doing any kind of interrogation as
much as humans as a life form have finally adapted to solve the problems of spacetime.
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