UNESCO Media Art Exhibition + SXSW + City of Austin
Austin Central Library, Austin, Texas
March 2019

Artwork
Adrian Aguilera and Betelhem Makonnen
untitled (meanwhile II, web 3.0), 2019
Dimensions variable
Single-video channel, live feed transmission, WiFi, TV, window frame and blinds

untitled (meanwhile II, web 3.0), a live feed transmission from the ISS (the International Space Station), proposes a break from the overwhelming spectacle that has become the everyday of contemporary life, continuously mediated through our ever-present screens. Combining quotidian objects (wood panel, a TV monitor, the internet, and a window), a habitual action (gazing out a window), and a simulacrum of nature (artificial turf), we hope to create an unforeseen and expanded perception of here. The work engages embodied experience through presence, perception, and shifts in perspective. Subverting the given relationships of near/far, macro/micro, sublime/mundane, as well as here/there, collapses distance and time opening a new inhabitable space. untitled (meanwhile II, web 3.0) hacks the polarizing social relations incessantly mediated by our screens and the internet, offering a new channel for unexpected encounters with our world and each other.

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