<nettime-ann> Drop Shadow Talk #6: Constant Dullaart

["johannes p osterhoff" <off@c-base.org>]

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Talk 6 on May 25 (Tue), 7 pm @ BTK Berlin 

Constant Dullaart:
"On Video Replies and YouTube as a Sculpture" 

http://dropshadowtalks.com 

The Drop Shadow Talks *prolonged*
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The digital drop shadow is the most popular effect in computer graphics 
today. Easily applied, it made its way to modern graphic design and 
advertising. It raises typography and objects from a flattened background 
into three-dimensionalityâand thus significance. 

With the current generation of operating systems the drop shadow effect 
entered the graphical user interface to a new extent. In this context it 
raises not only windows from background wallpapers; it also stands for a 
visually enriched interface that strives towards three-dimensionality. 
Loaded with rich imagery, photorealistic icons and pseudo three-dimensional 
configurations the graphical user interface yet remains tied to its ?at 
medium. 

Bewildered by this paradox, the graphical user interface leaves the office 
it was made for and becomes a pop culture phenomenon. 

The Drop Shadow Talks reply to current developments on the visually enriched 
layer for machine interaction. In the shades of evening lectures the Drop 
Shadow Talks present art and projects influuenced and inspired by the 
baroque graphical user interface. 


This Talk
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Constant Dullaart is a rising star that the exhibition circuit and the Drop 
Shadow Talks can no longer do without. Fresh from the Rijksakademie, he can 
always be found showing his work somewhere. He is a critic of the medium, 
highly active on the Internet, and is an equally talented critic of himself 
and of his vocation of contemporary visual artist. Constant Dullaartâs 
artistic strategy is not an unusual one: he investigates the newest medium 
that art offers him. But how different is Dullaartâs investigation of his 
medium from that of his predecessors in the history of art? What 
consequences does it have for the medium itself? In his Drop Shadow Talk 
Constant will show his recent works like âYouTube as a Sculptureâ and 
âDVD Screensaver Performanceâ and explain why video replies play a 
significant role in his artistic practice. The talk will be in English. 

Links
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http://dropshadowtalks.com
http://www.constantdullaart.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGvWL7Vb7I8 

Location
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The talks are located at Berliner Technischen Kunsthochschule
in room J/K.
Admission is free. 

Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule (BTK)
Hochschule fÃr Gestaltung (FH)
Bernburger StraÃe 24-25, D-10963 Berlin 


--
johannes p osterhoff, M.A.
Dozent fÃr Text und Interaktion 

Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule (FH)
University of Applied Sciences
Bernburger Str. 24-25, 10963 Berlin 

www.btk-fh.de
Tel. +49 30 25358708
Fax. +49 30 26949605
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