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DIAN - Digital Interactive
Artists' Network
November:
DIAN - Digital Interactive
Artists' Network –Stockholm, Sweden
Our focus for the month of November
is DOMIZIANA GIORDANO and REINER STRASSER. We proudly present their
work:
"The Doorman"
http://dian-network.com/navigation.html
"The doorman" is an
interactive, 'photo-cinematic' flash piece, created with documentary photos of
the subject shot over two months. Like insert-cuts in films, the sequences can
be played over time and arranged in your mind.
A doorman spends his days in the
dark of his lodge. His chair gives onto a wall at one corner of the entrance
hall. He cannot have an entire view unless he stands on the sill of his porter's
office window. Like the doorman of a theatre who cannot enjoy the show, the
doorman sits in his lodge, just witnessing other people passing
by.
This doorman though, can only hear people entering and leaving the
building. His contact with the world outside is limited to the screen of a small
black and white TV he watches all day long and the letters and pictures of a
newspaper.
He hears someone else's life, he watches someone else's life. Time
and life is passing by him. Is he really alive? To live in the dark of a lodge.
Was this his intentional choice or was it the only job he could
find?
How much the architect's design of the location interferes with the
wasting of the doorman's life?
DIAN - Digital Interactive
Artists' Network - is a network for artists who are seriously involved in using
Internet technology in the domain of contemporary art.
address:
http://dian-network.com
e-mail: info@dian-network.com
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