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director and writer from Liège in Belgium, Tamara Laï
converted to digital media as early as 1993. Her latest work is a
new medium in its own right, a 'Javascript movie' made in collaboration
with French digital artist Jimpunk. The short piece seems to take
over the computer for about two minutes, causing a barrage of windows
to pop-up, slide down, tremble and sway over the screen, accompanied
by eerie noises, intense sighs and electronic sounds. Staring eyes,
frames opening and drifting away, a crouching body, faces, an empty
frame and a few snippets of text ('words which, effective like me
ablaze fire of colors and soft or rough adjusted, functions outside
my veins'); obviously, this online artwork is not meant to be read
like a manual. It symbolizes the diluvial characteristics of the information
society and the ensuing desolation of a human being trying to communicate
via glass, metal and electrons - blurred reflections and unconnected
data are his part. Although fascinating in the relentless way the
piece usurps the viewer's screen, it leaves you slightly disconsolate,
musing over the demise of communication through sensory overload,
or, to quote the enigmatic text that closes the piece, 'cries and
theories'. |