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Where Is This Cloud Floating?
Today the cloud is the central metaphor of the internet: a global system of great power and energy that nevertheless retains the aura of something conceptual and numinous, almost impossible to grasp. (鈥�) It is something we are training ourselves to rely upon with only the haziest notions about what is being entrusted and what it is being entrusted to. (James Bridle, Novo mra膷no doba, Rad i misao, Rijeka-Zagreb, 2019)
To mark Rijeka鈥檚 Day, we are opening an exhibition of rarely shown artworks from the MMSU collection, created mainly in the early 2000s. In between private and public, physical and online spheres, and with an active engagement of the gallery space and the visitor, we tackle the millennial themes: ubiquitous networking and digital connectivity, and the influence of internet technologies on the perception of reality.
The exhibition discusses the experience of identity loss, lack of security and belonging, as well as the disintegration of togetherness in these information-accelerated, economically unstable times. In different approaches and media formats, these works pose the questions: how do we communicate with each other, who is fighting the information battle, and what fears prevent us from direct, open communication?
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Today the cloud is the central metaphor of the internet: a global system of great power and energy that nevertheless retains the aura of something conceptual and numinous, almost impossible to grasp. (鈥�) It is something we are training ourselves to rely upon with only the haziest notions about what is being entrusted and what it is being entrusted to. (James Bridle, Novo mra膷no doba, Rad i misao, Rijeka-Zagreb, 2019)
To mark Rijeka鈥檚 Day, we are opening an exhibition of rarely shown artworks from the MMSU collection, created mainly in the early 2000s. In between private and public, physical and online spheres, and with an active engagement of the gallery space and the visitor, we tackle the millennial themes: ubiquitous networking and digital connectivity, and the influence of internet technologies on the perception of reality.
The exhibition discusses the experience of identity loss, lack of security and belonging, as well as the disintegration of togetherness in these information-accelerated, economically unstable times. In different approaches and media formats, these works pose the questions: how do we communicate with each other, who is fighting the information battle, and what fears prevent us from direct, open communication?
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