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A series of exhibitions centred around a reconceptualization of classical romanticism in the context of the digital. Romanticism, as a reaction to the age of enlightenment, advocated for a return to nature and the irrational. Perhaps digital romanticism can do the same, but with the tongue-in-cheek qualities so characteristic of internet culture, suffused with a macabre irony that circles back around to the gothic undercurrents of romanticism; the ‘weltschmerz’ as one witnesses a decaying world, the sublime beauty of apocalyptic destruction; the ‘sehnsucht,’ or the yearning for the safe past, running off on holidays that make us feel like nothing has changed. All of this alongside the knowledge that perhaps the original romanticists were indeed correct, and Frankenstein’s monster is tearing us apart.
A series of exhibitions centred around a reconceptualization of classical romanticism in the context of the digital. Romanticism, as a reaction to the age of enlightenment, advocated for a return to nature and the irrational. Perhaps digital romanticism can do the same, but with the tongue-in-cheek qualities so characteristic of internet culture, suffused with a macabre irony that circles back around to the gothic undercurrents of romanticism; the ‘weltschmerz’ as one witnesses a decaying world, the sublime beauty of apocalyptic destruction; the ‘sehnsucht,’ or the yearning for the safe past, running off on holidays that make us feel like nothing has changed. All of this alongside the knowledge that perhaps the original romanticists were indeed correct, and Frankenstein’s monster is tearing us apart.
December 1st 2020 to March 1st 2021 Electric Artefacts is exploring the theme of romanticism within contemporary new media art, and while ‘Technoromanticism’ was coined in the nineties with slightly varying definitions, it is only fair to start this journey at its very roots. To anchor Technoromanticism in the context initially envisioned by curator Aleksandra Artamonovskaja and assistant-curator Nina Lissone, we turn to Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein
December 1st 2020 to March 1st 2021 Electric Artefacts is exploring the theme of romanticism within contemporary new media art, and while ‘Technoromanticism’ was coined in the nineties with slightly varying definitions, it is only fair to start this journey at its very roots. To anchor Technoromanticism in the context initially envisioned by curator Aleksandra Artamonovskaja and assistant-curator Nina Lissone, we turn to Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein
"Digital art finds itself in the unique position of being facilitated by the most advanced technologies of today while being able to portray things to which none of the limitations of the mortal world need to apply. "
"Digital art finds itself in the unique position of being facilitated by the most advanced technologies of today while being able to portray things to which none of the limitations of the mortal world need to apply. "
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