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26.03.05 uberKITSCH_series, the screen in its double perspective.
The screen is the repository of truth in our mediated society. The lightened pixels are constantly changing, representing the real through their moving colors and their constructed icons. The real and the fictitious are always placed side by side, but you can never tell for sure 'who is where'. This real/virtual clash is also a consequence of media history, where each medium has been 'digested' by the subsequent one. In the uberKITSCH_series (by the Ubermorgen group, author of such a net art project like Injunction Generator and SellTheVote) there's a brief analysis of the relationship between the screen, intended as a perfectly clean representations of objects through icons, and our perception of the same screen through photographic shoots. The screen so is reported as a machine would have seen it, and how we see it through the pixel matrix. These two different perspective on the same object (amount of pixels) are placed side by side, testifying the mediation of graphic information and subtitled by some ironic definition of God, interpreting this comparison. The real defects visible in the real screen photographs, compared with the perfection of the screenshots can be seen as another metaphor of the uncomfortable relationship between the defective physical objects and their representation inside the perfect space of the virtual desktop.