Numerički artefakti – digital artefacts
We live in the digital era. Digital interfaces have become our second nature providing us with the landscape of information we need and reach for.
What happens when these interfaces cease to exist due to a malfunction, spontaneous or invoked by the user/artist?
A series of works by Zlatan Filipović entitled numerički artefakti / digital artefacts takes this premise as its starting point. The logic of ‘the expected’ within the functioning of the interface has been brought up to the state of an “failure” and the information generated in that moment is translated into a new visual expression.
Digital prints are documents of the state of consciousness of the system frozen in the endless loop of an error. With the fall of graphical user interface (GUI) the layers of the numerical information generated by the subsystems (graphics processor, memory registers …) become visible as a burst of data captured in the format of bitmap graphics.
In the very moment of the “fall” of the system structure the authorship takes over. This new digital space is the playground where initial visual structures are generated and the postulates of visual structures become primary over the machine code.
Video installation entitled “Homage to Srebrenica / Srebreničanima” will be installed in the gallery to mark the anniversary of the genocide committed in this Bosnian-Herzegovinian town.
Zlatan Filipović, holds an MFA in Electronic Integrated Arts and lives between Dubai and Sarajevo. He is an assistant professor at the American University of Sharjah, UAE in the School for Architecture and Design.
Isak Berbić
