Marc Lee
10'000 moving cities - same but different, Interactive Net-Based Installation, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
have to find inside ourselves. In my artist practise I’m creating online projects and installations, in order to generate discussions and discourses among viewers. Is this a contradiction? The consequence would be doing nothing, just focusing on the inner Nature in the present moment. But I’m not able to do that. In the work '10'000 moving cities - same but different. http://www.1go1.net/movingcities I tried to express the enormous amount of cities, the countles lifes which exist simultaneously and which are constantly changing. Every time a city is clicked on the map, even the same city, the audiovisual presentation is different, because the content on
the internet is constantly changing. And at the same time it expresses the globalisation. Places are looking more and more the same mentioned in the concept of non-place elaborated by French anthropologist Marc Augé – which I know from the you, haha. If we look at the online ecosystem, we are stricken by an enormously great number of web services that present works which are accessible for immediate feedback on a wide scale and attract massive attention. Their authors rarely claim them being the works of art or seek a legitimacy from the artworld, 67