A film by Mitch & Maisy Goodwin

Truth, lies and screen time in the city :: A glimpse of the ambiguous and the synthetic - post-truth image making on the network :: Improbable cyborgs meet CGI models and cheeky chat bots :: Tweets, clowns and avatars burning red, green and blue :: Meanwhile, the city shimmers and the pixels blink as the robot in the garden downloads an update and ... waits.

Project Details

RGB Dreams was a commissioned work for Blindside Gallery's satellite Urban Screens series project, becoming [in]determinate. The series examines notions of the public space, specifically the public square, and what it means for art to occupy these spaces and connect physically disparate audiences through a collective experience. One of five curated video art works, RGB Dreams was exhibited at Blindside Gallery as well as large outdoor public screens in Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland (Dec 2019-Jan 2020).

The work responds to the provocation by artist Abbra Kotlarczyk’s two-part essay, In Material Per Versions (Part I: A Cappella for Powering Partic[ip]les and Part II: Autobiography of an Afterlife), which questions the materiality of identity through media display and the imposition – and slipperiness – of time in constructing narrative.

By repurposing media through the juxtaposition of oppositional texts, the work critiques futurist narratives of machine automation and A.I. against illusionary digital objects and synthetic media. The work prompts the viewer to question the sustainability of embedded societal and political fragmentation, of climate denial and systemic economic inequality in the context of technological simulation and pervasive forms of disinformation.

Reference Links

Blindside Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
https://www.blindside.org.au/satellite-2019-becoming-indeterminate