Other creative works
transmission detox [Solo Exhibition, digital]
transmission detox (online, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2015)
2015
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Abstract
Commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia 2015
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
About the commission
transmission detox (2015) by Sydney-based artist Marian Tubbs was the MCA’s first Online Commission. The artwork was made up of interlinking webpages that combine found images, video and audio with surveillance footage, text and data sets. It explored the implications of our activities online, the limits of user experience, and the value of data and metadata today.
The artwork took a nuanced and critical approach to the material conditions which influence the continued expansion and operation of the internet. Many early proponents of the World Wide Web espoused its utopian potential as a space for collaboration and the free sharing of knowledge. While the rapid spread of the internet and social media has surpassed many such expectations, it has done so as the result of corporate interests, predicated on the commodification of information, images and personal data.
Drawing together surveillance footage, found video and images, and website infrastructure itself, the work refered to a diverse range of sources, including the Great Pacific garbage patch, consumer aesthetics, and image editing software. In doing so, transmission detox questioned the very means of production which enable its existence.
In transmission detox, images were hidden and subject matter often distorted, perhaps suggesting that digital images are by their nature evasive; that the transmission of information is not the same as the transmission of knowledge; that the systems we use to communicate are loaded in favour of particular ideologies and the values they sustain.
The Online Commission represented the Museum’s developing and ongoing commitment to artists working online, providing opportunities for the creation of new work as well as developing audiences for it.
Details
- Title
- transmission detox [Solo Exhibition, digital]
- Creators
- Marian Tubbs (Artist) - Southern Cross University, Creative Arts
- Event
- transmission detox (online, Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, 2015)
- Identifiers
- 991013167013202368
- Academic Unit
- Creative Arts; Faculty of Business, Law and Arts
- Resource Type
- Other creative works; Solo exhibition