media art

Can contemporary art - and the production thereof - be optimized and automated? In 2013, the artist Jonas Lund made a solo exhibition based on this simple yet critical and challenging question. The Fear Of Missing Out, held at MAMA, Rotterdam, would become a landmark exhibition in which the algorithm played a leading role, a show that was of great influence on his later work. The works produced for The Fear Of Missing Out were not the direct result of Lund’s labour and ideas, but made by a computer algorithm written by him.

Gabriel Lester (Artist)
Marije Verduijn (Centraal Museum Utrecht)
Moderated by Gaby Wijers (LIMA)

Social Capital consists of interventions, presentations, workshops, performances, videos and installations at unexpected locations in various Amsterdam districts. We invite artists to reflect critically on the rapidly changing city.

Vanaf de jaren zestig maken kunstenaars als Hans Haacke en Daniel Buren, en later ook Andrea Fraser, het bekritiseren van de kunstwereld tot onderwerp van hun werk. Onder de noemer institutionele kritiek leggen deze kunstenaars de machtsstructuren van het instituut bloot. Bijzonder is daarbij dat zij niet van buitenaf aanwijzen waar de schoen wringt, maar zichzelf onderdeel maken van het systeem, en vanuit deze insiders-positie opereren. De werkwijze van de Nederlandse digitale kunstenaar Constant Dullaart vertoont overeenkomsten met deze kunststroming.