Midpunkt – Art Center in Kópavogur – is pleased to present the Augmented Reality Disorder (ARD) exhibition, an installation created by multimedia artist Hákon Bragason in collaboration with Katerina Blahutova. The exhibition will open on October 9. It will be on display every Saturday and Sunday from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. until October 31, 2021.
Augmented Reality Disorder invites the viewer to question their “digital self”. TV screens illuminate the gallery space with aggressive white light, but with the help of polarizing filters, images from a different reality are revealed. As visitors move through the exhibition, these imaginary spaces reveal the characters existing within them. Before you think about who it might be, the characters disappear. The only permanent link with the physical world is the lower half of the human body, located in the center of space.
To deal with this digital perception of themselves, the exhibition’s curators Dorothea Olesen Halldórsdóttir and Þorsteinn Eyfjörð invited artists to create an installation that would express this social phenomenon. Both artists and curators are asking how does this digital mirror affect our self-image? Do we unconsciously lose our sense of self if we do not constantly mark our presence in the virtual world? How different from reality do we describe our online personality? Do we still exist offline at all?
Can you visit this exhibition without taking a selfie? If you manifest visiting the exhibition with your “virtual self”, will you experience it more?
The exhibition is financed by the Visual Arts Fund.
Free admission
Where?
Midpoint, Hamraborg 22, Kópavogur
When?
Between 9 and 31 October 2021, on Saturdays and Sundays from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Source: Yle