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Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is an outstanding practitioner of interactive art (Coulter-Smith) but his work is situated outside the main drag of the Biennale near the Rialto in a building that serves as the ‘Mexican Pavilion’. (more…)
THREE VIDEO VIEWS OF FAROCKI’S DOCUMENTA 12 INSTALLATION ON THIS PAGE
In Documenta Doldrums Part 2 I ended with the work of Imogen Stidworthy noting that in my opinion it was the best piece in the entire exhibition. Again, from a personal point of view I would place Harun Farocki’s computational video installation Deep Play, 2007, in second place. Deep Play provides the viewer with an unusual perspective on the ‘beautiful game’: football. The topic of the video is the 9 July 2006 World Cup Final between France and Italy at the Olympiastadion Berlin. Instead of focusing on the traditional aesthetic topic of beauty Farocki’s twelve-screen computational video examines the game through the eyes of expert and surveillance systems both human and computational, but mostly computational.
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