Gabriel Sabando, Digital Dawn
Digital Dawn will take place for one week during which I will photograph, manipulate with Photoshop and finally upload to the Internet, some of the everyday objects i find at home.The resulting artwork will be displayed as still images, animated gifs and videos. All the three possibilities of output media that Photoshop CS5 allows today.
Photoshop has become the cornerstone of much of today’s artistic practice and discourse because in theory it gives us total freedom to manipulate reality. But what this suggestive promise implies is a deep frustration for that same reality.
In the midst of this technological and media revolution, where we are promised all the possibilities of social interaction and all existing content at the tip of our fingers; why not expect an equally revolutionary interaction with materiality? Why do we have to settle, in the midst of this revolution, with such a reduced part of the whole? Why is it that the most exciting virtual world we can expect today is Pandora?
Gabriel Sabando lives and works in Madrid, Spain. See more of his work at http://www.gabrielsabando.com or http://sunsetsunset.tumblr.com.
