Screendreaming

For digital artists, every finished work is underwritten by a proliferating number of sketches, versions and assorted source material that lie dormant in 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 that enable the endless manipulation and storage of visual information. Defamiliarised by their reproduction at large scale, these collages attempt to make visible the anarchic juxtaposition of files, folders, images and screen “chrome” that form the contemporary artist’s raw material.