Performing the Media – Online identities
The exhibition Performing the Media - Online identities, which is shown at the museum's online exhibition-platform Net. Specific, deals with how identity can be constructed in online space and through the tools that the internet gives its users to work with.
The invited artists all use the internet as a departure point in their performative artistic practices, which evolve around topics like: identity, surveillance, tracking, representation and hacking. Identity in this context is seen in a broad understanding of how personal representations take different shapes, where the web functions as a transformative and critical space for action.
Net.Specific is curated by Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen.The invited artists are Martine Neddam, Johannes P. Osterhoff og Tobias Leingruber.
For more information contact the curator: info@tmkm.dk
Martine Neddam is known for her pioneering work Mouchette.org and has for years been working with identity constructions in the online-sphere. In the Performing the Media exhibition, she will show her work My Desktop Life, which is a tool to create stories of yourself using what is on your desktop as elements in a narrative structure. The tool creates small portrait films of the person in question.
Johannes P. Osterhoff's online performance focuses on personal tracking, surveillance via the computer and mobile devices. Osterhoff has previously been working with durational performances related to his own use of mobile devices in e.g. his I-phone live performance. The new performance will be shown in the Net.Specific framework and the performance will be launched at the event at Supermarkt, where Osterhoff will be remotely present through a projection of his real-time location another place in Germany.
Tobias Leingruber is an active member of the F.A.T. lab (Free Art and Technology). Leingruber works with hacking and critical strategies applied to social media and online representation. An example is his Social Network ID-cards, which will be exhibited through a new interface on the Net.Specific platform.