The 'Real' & the 'Virtual';

Opening Up the Space for Immersion >>​

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Media Art Festival                 start of the end // graduation show 

Post CS gebouw, Leeuwarden         dogtime, gerrit rietveld academy

15 nov - 2 dec 2018                4 - 8 july 2018, amsterdam

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Opening up the Space of Immersion

'In todays modern Western society digital media systems have become an all-encompassing 'skin' of culture, one that has outplayed the analog signal. The analog seems to be forgotten. 

In his graduation work, Wouter Smit sets out to rediscover in the analog signal its poetic significance, if not its mesmerizing magic. He simultaneously humanizes and mythologizes these digital media set ups, by transforming them by means of analog signal processing and transduction, their subsequent digital representation and by means of a stint of artistic alchemy. 
By offering the visitors of his installation an immersive mediational space he provokes a stretching and expansion of their sensory perception. 

This expansion into an open space fuels a rethinking of modern day media systems, and the immersion in them. How to re-address the connection between the analog and the digital, how to re-invent the connection between the 'real' and the 'virtual’?

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- text edited by: Willem van Weelden

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