Video installation, 2008

The video Lonely Sessions displays emotionally charged scenes that might either come straight out of a dystopian science fiction film, or from elaborately designed computer games: industrial urban areas, derelict streets, claustrophobic views of interiors, strange natural objects and phenomena. Remarkably, it has no people in it, as though the virtual apocalypse had wiped out all human life, even across the different game scenarios. These are the places that androids think of when they cannot sleep.

About the artist

Joan Leandre, media translator and interpreter, has been a member of the OVNI Archives since 1992. Between the years 1994 and 1996 Leandre worked in the media interruption / continuity Analog Series MAP (Mega Assemble Project), Zero Foundation and Serial Monuments. From 1995 until 1997 he worked on the Oigo Rom Mega Assemble Project, and was later involved in the President Archives node. In 1999 he developed some software reversing techniques using commercial digital-distraction products such as computer games resulting in the series retroyou RC Fuck the Gravity Code, retroyou RC Butterfly Overflow and retroyou nostal(G) Phoenix West. Some unfinished projects are Deep Boot and the long ongoing series retroyou nostalg2. Other collective projects include the Babylon Archives and Velvet Strike. Leandre is now developing the impossible ‘In the Name of Kernel’ series, a desperate effort to escape the mass media nonsense gravity sphere in search of the true unknown.

TRUST
30 July–5 September 2010

Dortmunder U – Centre for Art and Creativity
Floor U3
Leonie-Reygers-Terrasse
44137 Dortmund

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