Landscape and Computer-Generated Imagery Panel Discussion

Published: May 18, 2020, 2:04 a.m.

b"In conjunction with the exhibition 'Topographic Resolutions II' at local artist-run initiative Kuiper Projects, the IMA and Kuiper presented a panel discussion and screening that considered the relationship between landscape and computer-generated imagery, both in contemporary art and wider culture.\\n\\nCurator Kyle Weise and artists Baden Pailthorpe and Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox discuss their relationships to digital depictions of landscape and its entanglement with militarism, a theme also found across the late filmmaker Harun Farocki\\u2019s practice.\\n\\nThe discussion was followed by a screening of one of Farocki\\u2019s final films, Parallel I-IV (2012-14, 45 mins) which incorporates found footage including that from video games The Legend of Zelda and Grand Theft Auto V to comment on the genre of computer animation and the history of style in computer graphics. \\n\\nImage: Harun Farocki, 'Parallel III' (video still), 2014, HD Video, 00:07:21. Image copyright of the artist, courtesy of Video Data Bank, School of the Art Institute of Chicago."