A New Media installation by Carmin Karasic & Rolf van Gelder.
This cyberart collaboration explores the relationships and correlations between replication, sex, power, and violence. This work is based on the collaborators’ two different perspectives: the personal observations by a black American woman and a white European man. Reality is based on perception, as we perceive it to be. Perspective is based on our cultural filters.
Positioned as two simultaneously looping movies, the artists’ visions confront each other’s realities. Concepts of conquest and cooperation circle about the human drive for lineage preservation. Power has reproductive implications. Violence is used to gain power. Their comparisons of perceived power and control create a dialogue that concludes: sex is the primary root of war.
The Movies
Exhibitions
- d{s}eduction dialogue @ New England School of Art (2001)
- d{s}eduction dialogue @ Boston Cyberarts Festival Preview Party (2000)
- d{s}eduction dialogue @ Art System Gallery (2000)
- d{s}eduction dialogue @ Artists Foundation @ The Distillery (2000)