Postgraduate Harmonies
KHM Rundgang, Köln Germany, 2012
the opening of C60 Collaboratorium with the exhibition 'Leer_Stelle' August 2013 Bochum
'Double Feature_Artist Talk mit: Sina Seifee & Spezialgast' GOLD + BETON Köln, Germany, 2013
As a cold virtual abstract structure is endlessly being generated on the screen behind, I read out an algorithmic generated text in the microphone. The text supposedly addresses me as an artist, child, teenager, abstract entity, etc. and lists what have ever influenced me with a stack of completely randomized references in the history of art. The monotone delivery, mechanical automated structure, and over-usage of the name of artists and writers overlay the process of the video.
In Postgraduate Harmonies, my vocal expression yields to an anonymous functionality and technical objectivity, the role of chance and randomness as the determining factor in artistic creation is emphasized, machine computing power is used to generate virtual image objects that replace the shaping of a material by artist’s hand, the effortlessness of the human endeavor shifts the gravity of the creative process from making to conception, and a 'real' artist statement is actually concealed.
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