6 Upstream artists part of group show Digital Deluge at ABN AMRO
6 Upstream artists part of group show Digital Deluge at ABN AMRO
Group show 'Digital Deluge' opens 11 September at the ABN AMRO Kunstruimte. Works by Harm van den Dorpel, Constant Dullaart, Jan Robert Leegte, Jen Liu, Noor Nuyten and Rafaël Rozendaal are part of this exhibition.
The group exhibition highlights the surprising diversity and development of the digital art movement. Some artists celebrate the endless possibilities that digitalization has brought with their work, while others explore its impact on society. The exhibition’s title, taken from an artwork by Noor Nuyten, refers to the constant stream of digital information that has forever changed our view of the world.
The exhibition takes an artwork of Peter Struycken as its starting point. As the 'father of digital art' in the Netherlands, he was one of the first artists to use computers for his work, starting in the late 1960s. In the 1990s, with the rise of the internet, digital art began to rapidly evolve. Jan Robert Leegte, Rafaël Rozendaal, Constant Dullaart, and Harm van den Dorpel are pioneers in the field of internet art, for whom the digital is not only a medium but also a subject. For instance, Rozendaal finds abstract patterns in website interfaces, and has them woven into tapestries from screenshots. Leegte transforms the flow of information generated by the internet into meditative images, while Dullaart, acting like a digital archaeologist, focuses on the history and impact of the medium. Van den Dorpel demonstrates how algorithms can eventually sideline the artist, as seen in his NFTs, where even the final outcome surprises him.
Jen Liu also focus on the digital world and where it leads. Liu, in a cartoon-like manner, portrays how we become entangled between screens and computers. The fact that art from this digital era is not necessarily virtual is evident in the work of Noor Nuyten. She visualizes our relationship with digital devices, and how they can be translated into a physical form.
More information here (NL).
Images:
1. I think of breakfast, and my mind is blank, Jen Liu (2022)
2. Digital Deluge: Tap To Unlock, Noor Nuyten (2024)