- Venue
- http://digitalartistresidency.org/
- Starts
- Monday, June 13, 2016
- Ends
- Sunday, July 24, 2016
- Address
- http://digitalartistresidency.org/
- Location
- South East England
- Organiser
- Digital Artist Residency
Jack Marder
Artist-in-Residence at Digital Artist Residency
SPACE//PLACE Residency
== Mon 13th June – Sun 24th July 2016==
http://www.digitalartistresidency.org
Jack Marder’s practice is formed around the ideas of excess, gluttony, waste and the spectacle of obsession. Marder addresses many contemporary issues and cultural habits such as indulgent Internet use, voracious consumption and capitalist driven excess. The consumption of food and an addiction towards the escapism of the electronic screen creates a sense of amplified excessiveness.
The digital residencies provide an online space for artists to develop works, ideas and practices. Three residencies will take place online between May–July, with each selected artist having one month to complete a proposed project along the theme of site-specificity.
Whilst in residence, Marder will focus on the relation between online spaces, the physical body of an Internet user and the private spaces in which the Internet activity occurs. Through exploring the performative space of the screen he hopes to question whether society is withdrawing from reality by cocooning themselves in the virtual through extended screen time and if one needs to start having a more healthy, balanced media diet.
