Media installation as part of the exhibition “ANALOG_DIGITAL. Media (Ex)changes” at METRO Kinokulturhaus.
The installation “Side by Side” by the Austrian media artist Virgil Widrich highlights the fundamental differences between digital and analogue films in terms of how they are created and perceived: the graininess and physical presence of the material are placed literally side by side with the clean, calculated clinicalness of digital film images. A massive movie projector is juxtaposed with a digital projector for home use. At the same time, the fragments of found footage assembled by the artist raise the question of what changes to media mean for the language of film. Originally, the term “film” meant the flexible image carrier, the film strip. Now, however, it refers to a set of creative possibilities, a form of art in which the image carrier has largely become a data carrier. (Anna Högner)
The work “Side by Side” is shown at the exhibition “ANALOG_DIGITAL. Media (Ex) changes”
– a coproduction of Filmarchiv Austria and sound: frame.
METRO Kinokulturhaus, Johannesgasse 4, 1010 Vienna, 3.10.2017 to 28.01.2018, daily 3 pm to 9 pm