[spectre] Scrollbars by Jan Robert Leegte // medialounge // #85 //

[Tom Holley]

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medialounge // #85 // 15.04.05 //
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Scrollbars / Jan Robert Leegte /
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22 April - 24 June 2005
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Presentations by:

Jan Robert Leegte / Scrollbars
Simon Yuill / spring_alpha

Followed by a music performance by ixi-software
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Jan Robert Leegte's 'Scrollbars' is a sculptural
installation which references the architecture
of software.

Jan Robert's work investigates the point where
the mind starts to confuse what is reality and
what is illusion, with particular focus on the
physical experience of the audience.  His
installation work isolates elements of the
Windows interface, which are in turn projected
onto various structures; previously
internet-based, he moved to physical
installations through a desire to develop a more
meditative relationship between the audience and
the work.

The exhibition will show a selection of Scrollbar
pieces for the first time: a minimal ground piece,
Scrollbar, a horizontal scrollbar isolated from
its original context and given a presence in a
physical space, along with the double Scrollbars
and a new installation, a complex composition of
many scrollbars forming a rectangular screen.
Themes explored through the series range from a
minimal sculptural statement in Scrollbar, through
the adaptation of architectural space and
references to issues around virtual space in
Scrollbars, to the continuation and consideration
of modernist compositional aesthetics and
simplicity in Scrollbar Composition.

Jan Robert started exploring the sculptural
properties of internet browsers and software in
general in 1997, using buttons, scrollbars, and
table borders in online installations; in earlier
sculptural works he used unusual materials, for
instance creating walls from sheets of Xerox
copy paper or large slabs of brown packing paper.
The various elements of the browser window appear
to have a striking physical reality, gained
through user familiarity, interactivity and
animation. Most people consider the scrollbar to
be a virtual object, not weighted with any
real-world significance, but in use it triggers
reactions such as frustration, anger, and
boredom-induced clicking. Reactions like these
suggest a subconscious acceptance of the inherent
'reality' of these objects.

Jan Robert studied Architecture at the Technical
University in Delft and Fine Arts at the Willem
de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. He lives and
works in Amsterdam.

http://www.leegte.org
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