Dadaland – Digital Alchemie Part 1 – Juan Petry 2024
Dadaland – Digital Alchemie Part 1
Instead of being a mentally broken drone therapist, unemployed cyborg job consultant, time travel machine machinist or electricity addicted AI – first-line consultant, I decided to take the job of an egg man in Dadaland.
First I decided to give up regular working hours, so less the rule and more the work. I devoted myself entirely to looking through my digital works of the last few years. The aim was to find out which works would be suitable for this Dadaland project (initiated by the mail art artist Predrag Petrovic). Then these works had to be prepared, transformed and mass-produced. In the process, further variants of the approach emerged and new aspects regarding the choice of process and material occured.
An unemployed cyborg would certainly have been helpful for a cheap internship, as would a part-time flying drone, but that was not available. Since political cabaret has almost died out thanks to the tireless censorship of those years, it also occurred to me to create the work only as an alibi and to put the actual essential creative work into the accompanying text. But then I rejected that. Now it is more important to bring this reverse glass painting – computer-aided and driven by the intensive use of a laser that works at the speed of light – into form and color. The Dadaland Queen, the Secret Monk, and the Amazing Citizens made it into this edition. These were by no means all of the works in the shape of the egg, but they were the ones that were appropriate for the format.
Rolf Habel, a friend and influential artist from Bonn, drew my attention to the artists Itten and Kandinsky and in particular their works in the technique of reverse glass painting. Digital alchemy raised the question: reverse glass painting at the speed of light, is that possible? You have the first result in your hand. Welcome to Dadaland, the land of free artists, poets and thinkers.
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