Author: lilja
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Rabbit mask composition
This is another study about transformation. The key piece, a “splicer mask” is taken from a video game. The composition started with the mask itself and evolved involved into a photograph and resulted in two oil paintings, where the second one is an analog composite between the photograph and the first painting. Oil on canvas,…
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SLEEP
Sleep (2013) is an eight-hour moving image work that began as a technical experiment and evolved into an ongoing exploration of time, presence, and perception. Referencing Andy Warhol’s unrealized eight-hour ambition, the piece uses contemporary consumer technology, a pocket camera, improvised rigs, and fragmented “dream” sequences—to construct a layered experience that exists between documentation and…
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Aphorisms from the edge of the walk-in closet
The book is an experimental study about the way how new technology creates possibilities where traditional edges become blurred. “Make to order” -services allow an existence of a real physical object that yet still does not exist. There is a book that is real and can be ordered and touched and smelled, yet still in…
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Surströmming
Surströmming is part of the APN201 concept, which is studying the changes that modern technologies imply on traditional ways of producing and distributing artistic works. This CD consists of 20-minute long electronic music track, but as with SLEEP, the focus is not on the content itself, but in the context. Throughout the times people have…
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One Way Ticket
One Way Ticket, or OWT is a project that started as as study of using a blog as a media for fictional work. Over the time the project transformed from blog posts into a collection of loosely connected irrational pieces of poetry to the point where in the end the author of the texts becomes…
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Across the alps
Across the alps is studying similar subjects as Bliss with a cow. It’s a different view on the relation of analog and digital era. It’s a “remake” of a historical painting altered digitally and then painted oil on canvas. Oil on Canvas 50 x 70 cm. 2011
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Bliss with a cow
Bliss with a cow is an oil painting, that shows a background familiar to millions of Windows XP users around the world. The work is examining the difference with analog and digital, as well as reminding us how the changes in technology can make us to forget something, that was part of our daily lives…
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