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“Chance is never alone here. The author must make a place for it; he must choose the system in which chance will be able to operate.” (Jindrich Chalupecky)
Humans have the unique ability to see the world as outsiders: we are able to see the world not only through our own experiences or interests, but also from a perspective that is, in Thomas Nagel’s words, “The view from nowhere”. Another aspect of the philosophical study of perspectives is the alternative reality created by digital media. The image of the world conveyed by mass media, whatever its intentions, is inherently distorted. Our knowledge is not acquired through direct perception, but ‘second-hand’, through technical intermediaries. In this way, what is perceived as a whole, as a process, by direct experience is broken up into fragments, reduced to parts.
The exhibition is based on a series of paintings entitled ‘Lossy’, in which this type of information deficit and distortion leads to abstraction. The...More
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“Chance is never alone here. The author must make a place for it; he must choose the system in which chance will be able to operate.” (Jindrich Chalupecky)
Humans have the unique ability to see the world as outsiders: we are able to see the world not only through our own experiences or interests, but also from a perspective that is, in Thomas Nagel’s words, “The view from nowhere”. Another aspect of the philosophical study of perspectives is the alternative reality created by digital media. The image of the world conveyed by mass media, whatever its intentions, is inherently distorted. Our knowledge is not acquired through direct perception, but ‘second-hand’, through technical intermediaries. In this way, what is perceived as a whole, as a process, by direct experience is broken up into fragments, reduced to parts.
The exhibition is based on a series of paintings entitled ‘Lossy’, in which this type of information deficit and distortion leads to abstraction. The...More
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