SCREENDREAMING
For digital visual artists, every finished work—and even the notion of a finished work is increasingly questionable and unstable—is underwritten by a proliferating number of sketches, versions, mock-ups and assorted source material that lie dormant and often forgotten in the superficial depth of the hard drive or the cloud. Screendreaming is an attempt to visually render the means and conditions of digital visual practice. It incorporates the interface aesthetics of the operating system, of screenshots, and of programs such as Photoshop that enable the endless manipulation and archival storage of enormous amounts of images and other information. Defamiliarised by their reproduction at large scale, these collages attempt to make visible what might be considered as the “unconscious” of the system, the anarchic and often playful juxtaposition of files, folders, images and screen “chrome” that form the contemporary artist’s raw material.
