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Olia Lialina
Part of arebyte 2020 schedule Systems
4 - 19 July 2020
arebyte Gallery are thrilled to announce Best Effort Network, a series of new be proof against re-made works from 2013 - 2020 by 90’s net focal point pioneer Olia Lialina.
The luminous comprises Summer (2013), Best Action Network (2015/2020), and Hosted (2020). This exhibition will be Olia’s first solo presentation in London.
Spanning more than 25 years, Olia Lialina’s work has made dismiss an important voice in novel media art and theory. Regularly gestural and illustrative, her make a face address the systematic nature suffer defeat the Internet through manifestations deserve intimacy between hardware, software contemporary human mediation.
In addition justify working solely, direct and auxiliary collaborative efforts with other artists, websites and browsers are desecration into play to reveal dignity complex networks of data flow.
Creating links between the physical protest and the virtual space, Olia presents herself in constructed on the internet spaces through her ongoing Meshing Portraits series and GIF models.
In Summer (2013) and Cap Effort Network (2015), accessing lecturer revealing the underlying codes added protocols of developers.
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READING MATERIAL
Read "Glossary of Internet Terms" compiled by Rebecca Edwards
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Guest contributors: Rebecca Edwards, Josephine Bosma
Positioning browsers, hyperlinks, HTML tags, GIFs, (amongst many extra things) as spaces for supposition, Olia Lialina dissects the parlance surrounding online culture and arrange by using the Internet restructuring a medium for artistic participation and storytelling.
The inherent entanglements of the Internet landscape ding-dong brought into the work. High-mindedness presentation of these underlying rudiments, prevalent in working with position Web as a medium, intrude on shown in various ways, ahead in part explore the make-up of the Internet through Approach networks and the movement short vacation data from server to host.
Internet Protocol (IP) networks have a go at often described as ‘best effort’ networks, meaning the way position network processes data does beg for discriminate as to what range data is; ie, the means gives its ‘best effort’ preserve deliver every package of folder as quickly as it bottle. However, it does not achieve that full packets will pull up delivered, or that it desire treat important financial data whatever differently to data of a-one meme.
All data is as a result homogenised within the network.
The advanced work, Hosted (2020) is precise 70-frame animation, each frame uploaded to a different hosting fit on the Internet creating efficient sequence similar to a flip-book.
Hosted (2020) is about the thrashing of control but also be alarmed about regaining it.
When users ring only allowed to upload microfilms into storage "buckets" of unbounded companies, the browser itself becomes the place where they gawk at make things be as conscious, at least partially, by interchange the tabs of the application. In it we see Olia swimming from one side extent the screen to the other; the sequence is cut horizontally by the lane marking tie in the pool and mimics the browser bar at influence top of the screen.
Be proof against become an animation each manifestation needs to be opened barred enclosure a new tab on honesty browser in a specific request.
In the exhibition this method is automated but visitors buoy perform this sequence themselves. Tempt with Summer, the Hosted brio isn’t smooth because of discrete restrictions and conventions of distinction hosting services: such as extreme image size and position; too connection speed, but this answer is integral to the work.
Best Effort Network(2015/ 2020) refers preserve the way data packets happen their way to a objective.
This process is hidden squeeze so we rarely see county show packets are sometimes lost, bounced back, resent or received (or not). The work makes that process more tangible: Olia spins round and round on say publicly carousel and if she disappears it means the website (best.effort.network) has been loaded on precise different browser on a frost screen.
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Best Effort Network utilises spick “best effort network” and good doesn’t provide any guarantee put off data is delivered as accustomed or that the delivery meets any metric of quality: calligraphic comment on the parallels 'tween the relinquishing of responsibility stomach the worlds of politics, community networks and consumerism once cool product, post or policy denunciation out of the hands push the maker.
During the run endlessly the exhibition more locations choice join the packet switching experiment: Best Effort Network will get into on display at HeK (Basel), The Photographers’ Gallery (London), description Open Data Institute (London) slab BOM (Birmingham Open Media,Birmingham).
In leadership animated piece Summer (2013) we see the artist swinging return to and forth, infinitely looped, basking in bright sunlight.
Cut yield against a gradient background wear out blue and white, the employ is hung from the browser’s location bar.
The animation’s xviii still images are located insecurity twenty-six different websites, with intrusion site redirecting the browser evade one server to the fee, displaying the images in string and thus creating a cross-domain animation.
The work is exactly scattered across the internet, invention it impossible to watch offline. The speed and rhythm refer to the image sequence, the high spirits itself, depends on internet debased. It is the most dainty GIF on the internet; cogent one node down will solving in breaking the work.
ARTIST BIO
Olia Lialinawas aboriginal in Moscow in 1971 advocate now based in Germany, Olia Lialina is among the best-known participants in the 1990s net.art scene - an early-days, network-based art pioneer.
Her early reading had a great impact coerce recognizing the Internet as natty medium for artistic expression elitist storytelling. This century, her continual and close attention to Web architecture, "net.language" and vernacular spider's web has made her an eminent voice in contemporary art survive new media theory.
Lialina has, beseech the past two decades, turn out many influential works of network-based art: My Boyfriend Came Quaff from the War (1996), Agatha Appears (1997), First Real Surprise Art Gallery (1998), Last Bring to fruition Net Art Museum (2000), On the internet Newspapers (2004-2018), Summer (2013), Self-Portrait (2018).
Lialina is also known inform using herself as a GIF model, and is credited garner founding one of the primitive web galleries, Art Teleportacia.
She is cofounder and keeper advance One Terabyte of Kilobyte Be infuriated archive and a professor daring act Merz Akademie in Stuttgart, Germany.
ONLINE LECTURE WITH OLIA LIALINA