i-Max (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} i_max) wrote,@ 2006-11-24 11:55:00 |
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Aqua in ABC CE
http://johannes-p-osterhoff.com/
A Q U A
Next-generation operation systems fascinate their users with new graphic effects, liquid animations, undimmed transparencies, striking drop shadows and with truly-colored buttons.
These interfaces especially in the last years have not only become very colorful also the semantic layer has widened: depiction of promises and utopias, of progress and lifestyle have joined the metaphors indeed necessary to machine-interact.
johannes p osterhoff questions this enriched visual interface of state-of-the-art operating systems and shows that by now it has become possible to paint entire pictures with this additional visual information. He thus rises the question of the significance and values of such systems.
For the digital paintings of this project johannes p osterhoff only used elements from Aqua the graphical user interface from OS X by Apple Computer among them scrollbars, menu-elements, buttons to close or minimize windows to paint with these small digital fragments over-sized images for real space.
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Aqua was initiated in 2005. Pictures of the Aqua series have been exhibited at the European Media Art Festival 2006 in Osnabrück, Germany. ABC Gallery now presents new works and one classic.
(johannes p osterhoff is diploma holder of Merz Akademie Stuttgart, Germany and European Media Master of Arts (University of Portsmouth). His connection to Russia started in 2004 with an internship at Art. Lebedev Studios. Since then the impressions of Moscow have been rendered into other artistic work for example the Hausbau-Projekt, that has become the world's first dynamically illustrated PDF-magazine.)
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http://johannes-p-osterhoff.com/
A Q U A
Next-generation operation systems fascinate their users with new graphic effects, liquid animations, undimmed transparencies, striking drop shadows and with truly-colored buttons.
These interfaces especially in the last years have not only become very colorful also the semantic layer has widened: depiction of promises and utopias, of progress and lifestyle have joined the metaphors indeed necessary to machine-interact.
johannes p osterhoff questions this enriched visual interface of state-of-the-art operating systems and shows that by now it has become possible to paint entire pictures with this additional visual information. He thus rises the question of the significance and values of such systems.
For the digital paintings of this project johannes p osterhoff only used elements from Aqua the graphical user interface from OS X by Apple Computer among them scrollbars, menu-elements, buttons to close or minimize windows to paint with these small digital fragments over-sized images for real space.
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Aqua was initiated in 2005. Pictures of the Aqua series have been exhibited at the European Media Art Festival 2006 in Osnabrück, Germany. ABC Gallery now presents new works and one classic.
(johannes p osterhoff is diploma holder of Merz Akademie Stuttgart, Germany and European Media Master of Arts (University of Portsmouth). His connection to Russia started in 2004 with an internship at Art. Lebedev Studios. Since then the impressions of Moscow have been rendered into other artistic work for example the Hausbau-Projekt, that has become the world's first dynamically illustrated PDF-magazine.)
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