New Mediations

2022. Oct. 01. - 2023. Jan. 22.

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Before visiting an exhibition, we look at installation photos or artists’ works on our smartphones, upholding and perpetuating the continuous cycle of images and their content. As reproductions in the digital space, artworks and exhibitions go further than they ever could with their physical presence.

The technological development of the internet has intensified the mediation of images to an unprecedented level, where we act as mediators, consumers, and (re)creators of images and content. In this new process of mediation, we, the viewers, content sharers, and creators, become both recipients and producers in a constant circulation of images. This change in the history of media has left a decisive mark on our culture, replacing the rigidity of materials with a series of flexible interactions on the basis of which we can understand our actions as new forms of mediation.

The exhibition will present the work of a current international art trend, an online and contemporary art community of Generation Y artists from the UK, Germany, Serbia, and Hungary, independent of geographical constraints. Intimately connected to both the material and virtual universes, Generation Y, also known as millennials, has grown into the world of the internet and social media, which has brought about significant changes in their perception of the world.

They work in a variety of genres, using predominantly analogue techniques, but at the same time they seek their reference network in the aesthetics of the internet, in the virtual reality that underlies their everyday existence. Their paintings, objects and sculptures are meticulously designed and crafted using both digital and hand tools. Many of them reveal the process of creation on the surface of their works, leaving behind subtle, personal traces. Others play with the flaws in their work or create unusual parallels between images.

A new international exhibition at the MODEM Centre for Modern and Contemporary Art offers an insight into the diverse and personal exploration of the aesthetics of the internet through the work of twelve contemporary artists and a group of four artists, creating new images and forms that break free from the rigidity of materials and give further space to the mediation between the real and the virtual.

 

Exhibiting artists:

Batykó Róbert / Arno Beck / Birds of Cool (Gresa Márton, Kármán Dániel, Németh László [Laca]  Radvánszki Levente) / Maja Djordjevic / Hanna Sophie Dunkelberg / Oli Epp / Liam Fallon / Tim Freiwald / Christian Holze / Keresztesi Botond / Nemes Márton / Harrison Pearce / Aaron Scheer

Curator:

Török Krisztián Gábor

Visual identity: 

Sassné Döme Melinda

The exhibition opened on 1 October and the Debrecen Kripto Day was part of MODEM’s 16th anniversary programme.

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New Mediations/Új Közvetítések exhibition view, photos: Biró Dávid

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