[spectre] Drop Shadow Talk: JODI in Berlin, Nov 2

[johannes p osterhoff]

  Dear Spectre,
the Drop Shadow Talks continue and will present JODI's latest works.
Enter the shade--at Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule:

Nov 2
Tuesday 19:00
JODI
Thumbing & FolkSomy.vj

http://thumbing.org/
http://folksomy.net/
http://dropshadowtalks.com/

Since the mid-1990s Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans started to create 
original artworks for the World Wide Web. A few years later, they also 
turned to software art and artistic computer game modification. Since 
2002, they have been in what has been called their "Screen Grab" period, 
making video works by recording the computer monitor's output while 
working, playing video games, or coding.
At the Drop Shadow Talks JODI will present their latest works 
thumbing.org and folksomy.vj

The digital drop shadow is the most popular effect in computer graphics 
today. Easily applied, it made its way to modern graphic design and 
advertising. It raises typography and objects from a flattened 
background into three-dimensionality--and thus significance.
With the current generation of operating systems the drop shadow effect 
entered the graphical user interface to a new extent. In this context it 
raises not only windows from background wallpapers; it also stands for a 
visually enriched interface that strives towards three-dimensionality. 
Loaded with rich imagery, photorealistic icons and pseudo 
three-dimensional configurations the graphical user interface yet 
remains tied to its flat medium. Bewildered by this paradox, the 
graphical user interface leaves the office it was made for and becomes a 
pop culture phenomenon.
The Drop Shadow Talks reply to current developments on the visually 
enriched layer for machine interaction. In the shades of evening 
lectures the Drop Shadow Talks regularly present art and projects 
influenced and inspired by the baroque graphical user interface.

The performance will take place in Raum 2.07.


-- 
johannes p osterhoff, M.A.
Dozent für Text und Interaktion
http://johannes-p-osterhoff.com

Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule (FH)
University of Applied Sciences
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