Assistant Professor Xin Xin featured in Group Exhibition, INHUMAN ART

Xin Xin‘s Falling Rehearsals is part of the ScreenSaverGallery group show INHUMAN ART, exhibiting at multiple locations including PAF Olomouc 2018, Gallery U Mloka, Olomouc, Czech Republic, Konvikt Press Centre, as well as on multiple personal computer screens around the world. ScreenSaverGallery is the world’s only online gallery of contemporary digital art which utilizes the potential of the screensaver medium.

INHUMAN ART is described by the curators, Barbora Trnková and Tomáš Javůrek, and graduate student Marie Meixnerová’s as focusing on the presentation of artwork primarily addressed to a non-human audience. The subjects of interest are the processes of the creation of artworks within the concept that the work is the result of mutual cooperation between human and inhuman entities.

Download the MAC / PC application “ScreenSaverGallery” and set it as a screen saver on your device. Without any further action on your part, the gallery will provide various changing artworks. After downloading the program ScreenSaverGallery, it activates a long unused component in the basic software system of an individual computer. Suddenly, when being inactive on your computer, the screensaver becomes a portal to the world of contemporary art. Through its emphasis on the computer context, both as a virtual space and as a physical object, this gallery is on the border between virtual and real. It manifests and symbolizes the many contradictions that we face daily.

As a specific experimental laboratory for the presentation of forms of visual discourse, it becomes a starting point for artistic, curatorial and educational experiments in intimate and social situations in which the gallery find itself through the screen of a computer. There, a mutual activation of physical and virtual space, a dialogue of digital work and the context of its site, all take place through the ambient mode of a screensaver. 

List of participating artists found here.