The two Malaysian artists who are the focus of Relocations, have been creating electronic art since the 1990s, endeavouring to locate emerging new media technologies within national art practice, before moving onto global platforms. The exhibition includes single channel video, web based works and installations; artworks which unpick and reconstruct the relationship between art, culture and technology.
In Video Reflux (2007), Niranjan Rajah addresses the decline of the power of video in the face of the sharing, recycling, appropriating and annotating of content over the Internet. While in Siri Hijab Nurbaya (2003), Hasnul Jamal Saidon’s video installation addresses questions of gender and identity within the global mainstream media.
Relocations critically places these artists within the context of contemporary new media where the redefining and repositioning of ideas and concepts is an ongoing and constant process.This is a partner exhibition in collaboration with Singapore Management University as part of International Symposium of Electronic Arts (ISEA 2008) that was held in Singapore. The show is curated by Roopesh Sitharan.
Gallery 12 host the online exhibition for "relocations", pls visit :
http://www.12as12.com/relocations
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