[spectre] Drop Shadow Talks: Constant Dullaart

[johannes p osterhoff]

Talk 6 on May 25 (Tue), 7 pm @ BTK Berlin

Constant Dullaart:
"On Video Replies and YouTube as a Sculpture"

http://dropshadowtalks.com

The Drop Shadow Talks *prolonged*
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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 ?at 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 present art and projects influuenced and 
inspired by the baroque graphical user interface.

This Talk
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Constant Dullaart is a rising star that the exhibition circuit and the 
Drop Shadow Talks can no longer do without. Fresh from the 
Rijksakademie, he can always be found showing his work somewhere. He is 
a critic of the medium, highly active on the Internet, and is an equally 
talented critic of himself and of his vocation of contemporary visual 
artist. Constant Dullaart’s artistic strategy is not an unusual one: he 
investigates the newest medium that art offers him. But how different is 
Dullaart’s investigation of his medium from that of his predecessors in 
the history of art? What consequences does it have for the medium 
itself? In his Drop Shadow Talk Constant will show his recent works like 
“YouTube as a Sculpture” and “DVD Screensaver Performance” and explain 
why video replies play a significant role in his artistic practice. The 
talk will be in English.

http://www.constantdullaart.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGvWL7Vb7I8

Location
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The talks are located at Berliner Technischen Kunsthochschule
in room J/K.
Admission is free.

Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule (BTK)
Hochschule für Gestaltung (FH)
Bernburger Straße 24-25, D-10963 Berlin


-- 
johannes p osterhoff, M.A.
Dozent für Text und Interaktion

Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule (FH)
University of Applied Sciences
Bernburger Str. 24-25, 10963 Berlin

www.btk-fh.de
Tel. +49 30 25358708
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