Philipp Teister: the urgent message - Imperica - digital arts and culture magazine.
Teister has been shaking the tree of art theory for some time. We covered him some time ago, when he had given his Facebook user account details to the world. This time, he's doing something which is slightly more subtle, but also more meaningful. He sees his work as having an approach of the purist: he finds it difficult for his work to be accepted as "art”. Although it can be viewed as satire, as social commentary, his reasons for doing what he does are much deeper. It is, as he refers to it during our conversation, something of a mission. “I just create the story. What you make of it is yours. That's what I love to do. It's hard to be an 'artist', as that is perceived to be something totally different.” His new work, Binlover, first surfaced in 2011. It was developed on the back of the ubiquitous and impenetrable Stuxnet worm, which found its way into telemetric devices of all kinds, including nuclear power stations. At the same time, a friend visited from Nairobi, telling him about African Maximalism. From there, Teister came up with the idea of harvesting the contents of a computer's trashcan and combining it with the story of an agent to produce Binlover. Its development was supported by Rotterdam-based independent art organisation Moddr which, at the time, was facing financial challenges as “... the neoliberal wankers started to shut down all of the independent art spaces. Those places don't really exist any more.” http://www.imperica.com/en/news/philipp-teister-the-urgent-message _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
