Concept

Digital Art Festival

Exhibitiongroup: <p>annesignefalk<p>

"<title>Ff6b</title>"

3. – 26. nov. 2006

Ff6b = [Functional faults 6 blockages] Dogme Installation at Gallery Image, Private Launch on 3rd November 2006 between 4 and 6 p.m. The exhibition will be shown up to and including 26th November 2006.
Gallery Image, Vestergade 29, 8000 Århus C. www.galleriimage.dk

Digital technology seems to give us a lost dream back: the dream that everything is possible. Hardware and software appear to promise us unlimited communication, problem free realisation of needs and absolute creativity. As well, a lot of digital art appears to live in the neo-romantic dream, where art is created by the inspired artist who alone understands the secret codes and unending potentialities. In order to counteract this tendency and to encourage collaboration between different art forms, we have transferred film's Dogme tradition to digital art. Digital art's - like all other arts - freedom actually lies in self-imposed restrictions and not in unlimited possibilities. Therefore, Installation Ff6b at Gallery Image must consider the following restrictions: The installation must be a laboratory, as such a process rather than a finished exhibition. The visitor will be co-creator, their presence and actions will have an influence on the installation. You can only use real-time video or audio data. You can only use pre-existing codes from other or earlier works, obviously altered with a view to create Ff6b. The total budget can not exceed DKR8000.
The installation must include a system breakdown every 3 minutes.

Our Project Group is made up of Signe Klejs, Anne Dyhr and Falk Heinrich. All three collaborators have widely differing artistic backgrounds and positions in the project.

Signe Klejs works in the hybrid field between design, art and IT. The project stretches from web design over digital set design to interactive installation art. What they have in common is that they examine the interaction between people, space and technology. MA in Interactive Media Design, Design School Kolding, 2002. www.cygne.dk

Anne Dyhr is the group's co-ordinator. Dyhr has on a conceptual/discussion plane occupied herself with digital design and art projects. She is the Editor for Art Portal Århus.nu (HYPERLINK "http://www.aarhus.nu" www.aarhus.nu) and is a board member in Gallery Image. MA in Multimedia from Århus University, 2005 and BA in Fine Art Photography from Glasgow School of Art.

Falk Heinrich has a background as an actor and director. In the last few years, he has occupied himself with practical, as well as theoretical, interactive installation art and created a number of interactive installation works (HYPERLINK "http://www.studioru.dk" www.studioru.dk ). He has a PhD. and teaches Aesthetics and Design at Aalborg University in Copenhagen.