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Limited edition, signed by the artist: 33 + 4 exemplars
Edition text: Diana Baldon

Video, sound: Axel Stockburger
2008, 5:10 min


Edition Medienturm, release 20 / 08

Axel Stockburger

Abstraction

At first site Stockburger’s video “Abstraction“ (2008) appears as the brainchild of the rainbow effects of the star gate. To be brought in the giant wormhole is not a “space gater” but 100,000 pictures found in the most comprehensive image search technology on the web: Google Image Search. Kubrick’s abstract colour planes are here replaced with images outsourced from different engines by way of search by keyword approach. Reflecting upon a theme, that of “abstraction,” Stockburger turns this topic of investigation into a methodological tool used to used to compile images tagged by internet users and following these engines’ recommendations to what can denote "abstraction."

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