For my further artistic practice I would like research the accelerating effect the implementation of digital technology and algorithms has on an individual.
For my further artistic practice I would like research the accelerating effect the implementation of digital technology and algorithms has on an individual.
Artworks and Processes
Artworks and Processes
Artworks and Processes
Artworks and Processes
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Olafur Eliasson
​© Olafur Eliasson, Your ocular relief, 2021
“I don't feel alien or excluded when working with digital art. I still ask the same questions: why and how.” – Olafur Eliasson
physical phenomena in nature
installation art
seeing yourself sensing
disembodiment
the change of values
AR
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“I have always been quite interested in the notion of the imaginative, the miraculous, the wonder, the curiosities (...) things that are explainable but not fully explainable.”
(Eliasson, 2021, 01:08)
​© Olafur Eliasson, Sketch of Beauty, 1993
Olafur Eliasson works in the fields of architecture, ecology, food, education, sustainability, climate change, perception and collective activity. His works all share a sense of wonder and a fascination for the world around us. He plays with natural phenomenas and displays their timeless beauty. What is very special about his work is that the viewer not just has an experience but becomes conscious of having it. Eliasson calls this “seeing yourself sensing” because the viewer is made self-aware and might also change his future behavior and how he perceives the world. Many of his works invite people to interact with it in an individual way where the experience they share is not just about the artwork they are seeing but also about their place in it. (Godfrey)
​© ​Olafur Eliasson, Beauty, 1993
​© Nowness interview with Olafur Eliasson via video call with creative director Bunny Kinney,
where he reveals how AR is significant to his life and practice.
“I am old enough to believe that we are getting disconnected or disembodied by all this digital presence. You know the way that a body is present in front of you and how you breath and how that is otherwise hard to communicate through a little camera like this one here - it just means so much when you have the body of another person in front of you and your are talking and you can just feel something that you can not feel otherwise.
(...) In the conversation we are having now augmentation can be one of the things that introduce such finesse or such qualitative matters/message - otherwise were just stuck in a life in a flat screen - it is just so 2-dimensional and disembodied.
(...) How are humans reacting to this and what is the learning? Are we maybe in a process of changing some core principles, I mean changing some core values? - In principle I think going back is wrong, we need to create or imagine a future where going ahead and being progressive is synchronizing the values with the time we are in.
I am think a lot about that right now. Where is art going to be in all of this when it comes to reflecting on what has happened?”
(Eliasson 2021, 02:56-04:40)
His VR project Wunderkammer (2020) enable the user to turn his personal space into a "chamber of wonders", filled with virtual objects that react to him, wich mykes them different from a movie. It is a collection of natural elements, small artworks, and experiments from the artist’s studio who meld the well-known with startling movement and unexpected actions. (Acute Art, 2020)
Key Takeaways
Why is it relevant to me and how will I implement it?
Olafur Eliasson invites the viewer to perceive himself and his surroundings more sensitively. He manages to fascinate the viewer by creating a personal event and giving the viewer the opportunity to rediscover this new connection to themselves in everyday life. I see his current immersion in the digital world in the form of AR as an exciting compromise that he makes in order to react to the development of our time towards ever increasing digitization and as an attempt to influence it.
He sees in AR a hope to introduce finesse and qualitative matters of interaction with the real world, because otherwise he fears that humans are gravitating towards being stuck to a life which is an unnaturally 2-dimensional and disembodied.
He questions where art finds its place in this development and raises the question if we are changing some core values in the way we interact digitally today.
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I share his perception of the disembodied human and that is why see his approach as a way to redirect the human to his surroundings. I guess it is one thing to realize and depict a development and another thing to react to it or even against it. Eliasson inspires me to take a position in my painting which is a bit clearer and to have in mind what the viewer could take away from it. His is not just documenting, he is actively reacting.
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References
Acute Art (2020) Olafur Eliasson, Wunderkammer (2020)/ Augmented Reality. Available at: https://acuteart.com/artist/olafur-eliasson/ (Accessed: 25 Jan 2022)
Godfrey, M (no date) How Eliasson is changing our perceptions. Available at: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/olafur-eliasson-5239/yes-but-why-olafur-eliasson (Accessed: 20 Nov 2021)
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Nowness (2020) The new Olafur Eliasson AR project you can experience at home. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-UT2MYSjMo (Accessed: 25 Jan 2022)