Jeudi 24 Juillet 2014 14:31:45 par actuphoto dans Expositions

Lookout Gallery opens the season with an exhibition by Karol Komorowski & Alan Warburton. In Komorowski's new photographs and the accompanying movie Spherical Harmonics by Alan Warburton, both artists employ CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) to redefine the status of the image, exploring how these new technologies alter the perception of reality.

- Distrust in images is already an obsolete artistic formula. We have accepted the reality structured by two - dimensional representations. One cannot escape into this virtuality, nor can one escape from it – some kind of pure abstraction would still remain. Even the difference between silver halides, pixels and CGI has lost its importance. Today, images are our "real world" and virtual reality is gone. How, then, should we define this realism? How does our experience of reality change in the world where physical space has been overtaken by computer software? How do the new interfaces influence our symbolic order, language, seeing modes? What possibilities arise through the new trust in images? - says Karol Komorowski.

©Karol Komorowski, Wired, 2014

In his movie Spherical Harmonics, the London - based artist, Alan Warburton deconstructs CGI reality by showing its relation ship to more traditional photography. The movie was created for London’s Photographers Gallery, whereit was presented earlier this year.

Spherical Harmonics is about the strange power of the CGI image. It is a vision of a hermetically - sealed fantasy, full of digitally - created memories, counterfeit physics and controlled accidents. A place where reality fails because it's too perfect, and where spectacular CGI setpieces are replaced with more introverted and complex fantasies - fantasies of the digital-artist-as-god, lost in uncanny valley. - says Alan Warburton.


Exhibition open until 20th september