Tuesday, Oct 22nd 2023, 17:30 – 19:00
West Court, Edinburgh College of Art
Open Secret is a touring screening of “internet cinema” curated by artist and researcher Dana Dawud, which to date has been exhibited in different forms in Sweden, Hungary and America. The works showcased integrate current and emerging technologies within internet culture such as AI, deep fakes, video games, and internet-found footage. The videos bring into question contemporary states of ‘post’-being: post-discipline, post-irony, post-net, post-shitpost.
Throughout the works a formal tension emerges between the frictionless existence promised by web interfaces and the clunky, vernacular methods of contemporary filmmaking, which increasingly deviate from ‘industry-standard’ practices, opting instead to fold in the process to the outcome: screen recordings and app interfaces leave their traces throughout. This common technical grounding also builds a ubiquitous framework for more open, diffuse, poetic articulations voiced in the featured works.
As well as a screening of moving image works, there will be the launch of an eponymous publication that builds on the themes and provocations made throughout the works featured in Open Secret to date. This will be followed by a Q&A with Dawud and Y7 convened by Ian Rothwell and Tamara Trodd and a drinks reception.
Screening Line-Up: Dana Dawud, Isaac Sullivan, John-Robin Bold, KIRAC, Machine Yearning, Marble Index, Poorspigga, Redactedcut, Sulaiman Majali & Zaid Sajdi, Xafya, Y7.
