Brigitte Kowanz, Email 02.08.1984 03.08.1984, 2020

2020

Medium

Aluminum, lacquer, cable and iPad

Edition

Ex. 1/3

Status

In Gallery Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-156154

As part of her exhibition in the Austrian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017, Brigitte Kowanz showed a series of works explicitly dedicated to the topic of digitization. In her work Email 02.08.1984 03.08.1984 (2020) Morse code can be found in a transformed form, in that the date of sending the first e-mail appears on an iPad as a light- and acoustic signal. The neon yellow cable - alluding to the neon tubes that Brigitte Kowanz utilizes in her works - forms a curved floor drawing communicating the same date that can be found in written Morse code. Brigitte Kowanz makes the following statement about these new works: “The initial focus of the discussion was on data, codes and light as information. Until now, I had worked on the origins of information transmission with light (electromagnetic waves) - the Morse code - but now my interest is directed towards the present, digitization, the Internet - the digital society. Light is not only the basis of all life, it is also the basis of post-analog communication." Another work from this series of iPad works was presented in 2020 in the comprehensive retrospective Lost under the Surface in the “Haus Konstruktiv” in Zurich.