My Lover the Server
My Lover the Server explores the phenomenon of Internet romance which has exploded online in recent years. Drawing on real digital communications with web stalkers, strangers and actual lovers, and re-interpreting them for the Concrete gallery space. Against a backdrop of dedicated wallpaper designed by the artists, looping animations will run continuously off memory cards, inviting the public to remotely interact with the artwork. Digital prints will be presented in dedicated Rococo frames, and an exquisite My Lover the Server book will be launched in a limited run of just 150 copies. The exhibition offers an increasingly powerful interaction between viewer and artist , asking: is expressing love through icons, animations, video and .gifs the new bouquet of roses? How are romantic communications intensified and changed via the Internet? These questions will resonate with anyone who uses communication technology in daily life, particularly online social networks like Facebook, Hyves, and Skype, where flirtation has no face and high school obsessions re-emerge from the past. In short, the vast majority of the Net generation will be provoked and stimulated by My Lover the Server.
HD video, Processing patch, skype telephone patch, usb telephone, LCD flatscreens, custom wallpaper, HD projection, Stereo sound, Prints, Limited edition books.
Show created by Anita Fontaine and Geoff Lillemon.
Thanks to Lotje Sodderland, Mike Pelletier, Hicham Khalidi
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: My Lover the Server, Invite
: Installation shot
: Installation at Concrete
: Knightshift, looping animation
: Emoti, Limited edition print
: Emoticon Lover wallpaper detail
: Opening night at Concrete
: Vinyl welcome