framed scrolling

As the pandemic pushed many art events online, virtual museums emerged promising immersive and interactive experiences. In practice, they often became linear, technically constrained spaces where artworks were over-compressed to accommodate outdated hardware. I was struck by how these methods of online diffusion frequently diluted the essence of the works, reshaping both their perception and their substance. 

In framed scrolling, you are stuck on "rails" in an endless tour of a virtual museum filled with screens on which you can watch me scroll through different pieces from the online exhibition Re|Search. This virtual exploration is a reflection on our relation with screens and space and how those can impact our perception of artworks. My aim was to generate something pointless and cumbersome by how it aspires to present artworks which are now trimmed and distorted. Their integration in physical space disfavors how we consume the works. That said, please visit the "originals".

The following works can be partly seen within my piece:

Critical Atlas of Internet by Louise Drulhe mollysoda.explosed by Molly Soda We are fragmented by Amira Hanafi I'm Google by Dina Kelberman PRÖSPECT by Isabelle Gagné & Paul Gascou-Vaillancourt & Stéphane Archambault The New Organs by Sam Lavigne & Tega Brain My Google Search History by Albertine Meunier Désordre by Philippe de Jonckheere Network Effect by Jonathan Harris & Greg Hochmuth Predictive Art Bot by Disnovation.org & Jérôme Saint-Clair Baby Come Home by Foundland Collective

You can access these works and many more on the online exhibition website here: http://researchexhibition.org/

https://isea-archives.siggraph.org/art-events/framed-scrolling-by-baron-lanteigne/