Enter Action - Digital Art Now

ENTER ACTION - Digital Art Now showcased the latest and most innovative art created by today's digital technology. For the string of international artists who participated, the computer was their brush and palette.

ENTER ACTION - Digital Art Now showcased the latest and most innovative art created by today's digital technology. For the string of international artists who participated, the computer was their brush and palette.

At a time when the world communicates primarily via digital media, and when people's social lives largely take place in front of the computer, ENTER ACTION - Digital Art Now brought these media into the art world to let the computer give the world completely new images.

This resulted in works as diverse as robot art, 3D films, interactive installations, net art and even painting based on computer game motifs. What all these works had in common was that they challenged the usual framework of the artwork and created completely new experiences, often based on the interaction between human and artwork.

With a poetic and physical presence, the digital art at ENTER ACTION - Digital Art Now managed to connect us with our fellow human beings and the world around us.

Exhibited works

Avatars - 0100101110101101.org

• 11 avatar portraits taken from the virtual parallel world.

Black Cat - Knowbotic Research

• Black helium balloons move between each other in a defined area and music is created.

Drives - Erik Olofsen

• A high-speed camera has captured an oncoming car passing by. In the projection, a split second of the sequence is pulled out of proportion.

Electroboutique - Alexei Shulgin & Aristarkh Chernyshevs

• Familiar everyday objects are presented in an oversized version and seen surroundings are transformed into digital versions.

Faceless - Manu Luksch

• 50-minute film that deals with the theme of fear and surveillance.

Fish-Bird - Mari Velonaki

• Two wheelchairs have inbuilt artificial intelligence and special personality traits that influence their relationships and reactions to interaction.

Life Writer - Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau

• The work consists of a typewriter that transforms the written letters into tiny crawling animals whose survival on paper depends on the amount of letters they can eat.

Listening Post - Ben Rubin & Mark Hansen

• 231 digital displays are fed sentences, words, letters and sounds via an online computer. The work is permanently connected to the internet and is constantly changing.

Netkunst - Mogens Jacobsen / Søren Pold

Pulse Room - Rafael Lozano Hemmer

• The human pulse is translated into rhythmic flashes of light in the 300 light bulbs hanging from the ceiling.

Run Motherfucker Run - Marnix de Nijs

• The museum visitor steps onto a treadmill and as they run, a sensor activates moving images of an urban environment that shifts with their speed.

Sonic Bed London - Kaffe Matthews

• Under the mattress of a box bed are powerful speakers whose deep vibrations can flatten a stressed body.

ToyGenoSonic - Ludic Society

• Aarhus acts as a game board and the city's citizens are participants in this game specially developed for ARoS.