Flatness and Volume

Still from Magali Reus, Highly Liquid, 2013 © Courtesy of the artist 

As members of an increasingly informed online audience, we can begin to appreciate how information gathered about our virtual interactions and movements around the web is more financially valuable to the owners of the websites we visit than we may have been aware of previously.

With our data mined and sold off behind the scenes to advertisers and security organisations, rather than consumers, we have essentially become the products of these services. This significant but unspoken shift taking place beneath the surface of our online activities, is reflected in the indirect language of these companies who appeal to us emotionally, by asking continually, “What’s on your mind?”.

This selection of artists’ moving image works considers how the viewer is addressed through the screen. The programme explores how the moving image can create an affective context for interpretation and feeling beyond the language of pure persuasion.

Shama Khanna is a researcher and curator based in London from where she edits the website flatness.eu, an online exhibition and research platform exploring the potential of the web as a site for the creation and reception of contemporary art.

Film screening:

Lucy Clout, The Extra’s Ever-moving Lips (2014) 8 mins
Heatsick, Clear Chanel (PAN 2013) directed by Rachel Reupke 3 mins

Magali Reus, Highly Liquid (2013) 3 mins
Elizabeth Price, At the House of Mr X (2007) 15 mins

Theo Burt, Tiling sessions (2012) 4 mins

Judith Hopf, Lily’s Laptop (2013) 5 mins

Loretta Fahrenholz, My Throat My Air (2013) 17 mins

Moderna Museet Malmö 11 December 6 pm. Included in the admission.