Inspired by the artistic approach and work of media pioneer Lillian Schwartz, who is best known for her significant contributions to the computer-aided visualization of form, movement and algorithms in the 1970s, the artists Johanna Bruckner, Tina Frank, Claudia Rohrmoser and Dagmar Schürer have collaborated to create a video work. Together they examine the question of the origin of ideas and their transformation in networks, as well as the question of how technology reshapes the creation process of an artistic work. In a rapidly changing technological landscape with AI-based algorithms that repeat, vary and adopt existing ideas countless times, the artists use each other's existing works as a basis to create further individual responses and variations. The verticality of the projection is reminiscent of pop culture formats from social media. Like a cascade of expressions, reactions, digital gestures and mash-ups of ideas. The audio mix of the collaborative work was produced by Karin Fisslthaler and is based on music by the artists themselves as well as pieces by General Magic, Peter Rehberg, Florian Hecker and others. The video was projected publicly as part of Ars Electronica 2023 in Linz.
A collaboration between Johanna Bruckner, Tina Frank, Claudia Rohrmoser, Dagmar Schürer, we cascade, 2023, installation view.