THE CREATION OF SPACE

Avery and I decided to join the influx of online exhibitions and hold our own but didn't want it to be just another clearly student run social media thing. We decided pretty quickly to make a 3D gallery space using camera tracking which would result in one video that tours a traditional gallery-like space. Whilst submitting my own work to open calls, I found Hands In The Digital Age which was the 2nd online exhibit by Molly Stredwick, the first being I'm Making This For The Rat That Lives Under My Oven (here). The exhibition is a pastiche of the private views that London art students frequent and is held in a similar 3D space. This also reminded me of the virtual work by Nick Waplington where he made a functioning website. There's a great book on it in the library but obvs can't access that right now. The title of his newest book The Search For A Superior Moral Justification For Selfishness, also seems apt to the times. We discussed the gallery space first and then Avery worked on promo imagery until we agreed on two similar images to post at intermittently throughout the submissions timeline.

"Learn how to die the easy way: Spoof websites created by Nick Waplington.

As Nick Waplington's contribution to the Venice Biennale in 2001, these photographs express a yearning for the artistic and commercial freedom that the Web might yet expose, and a celebration of the dislocated reason behind conventional thoughts and the media they use."

Giorgio de Chirico

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