Olia LIALINA & Dragan ESPENSCHIED

[RU+DE] ~ 1971 & 1975

zombie-and-mummy.org

“With Elements of Web 2.0” ~ 2006

Diptych & triptych. Silkscreen over digital prints on aluminum.

Private collection, Brussels

“Dimension (With Elements of Web 2.0)” ~ 2006
“Dimension (With Elements of Web 2.0)” ~ 2006
“Constellations (With Elements of Web 2.0)” ~ 2006
“Constellations (With Elements of Web 2.0)” ~ 2006
“With Elements of Web 2.0” transfers the conventions which condition our current web experience onto aluminium, comparing them with past icons (the deep space of old posters, for example, reworked in Constellations) and habits. Both offer a tender yet cruel portrait of the web, its evolution and involution, its vacillations between commercialization and DIY, and its way of containing, just like the universe, everything and the opposite of everything.

“Midnight” ~ 2006

HTML, animated GIFs, touch screen.

Private collection, Brussels

“Midnight” ~ 2006
“Midnight” ~ 2006
“Midnight”, described by Dragan as “a wonderful piece of web bijouterie”, uses the navigation bar of Google Maps to let us explore a universe of desktop icons, animated GIFs, arrows and buttons.

[video 1 & 2]

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