Project by
Darko Fritz . since 2002
The project develops
to question notions of home and displacement as well as issues of
migration, identity and nostalgia. It consists of several parts.
Home . advertising billboards
/ graphic
The Future of Nostalgia . horticulture unit
Search . horticulture unit
illegal immigrants dis.information . on-line work
[Home]|[Search]|[Home]
. series of hand-prints on paper
Migrant Navigator:
Navigation Toolbar . series of computer graphic
Migrant Navigator Tools . video [5 min]
Migrant Navigator Xtra Tools . text
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send
an e.card Home to your frend [thanx to Get.carted.net . an ongoing
art activist e.card project]
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Home . advertising billboards
/ graphic
The Home graphic consists of an image of the 'Home' icon from the
Netscape Navigator browser. Unlike the original 'Home' icon, here
it is printed in black and silver and white. The graphic's size is
2 x 2 metres. Within the billboard project is displayed on a white
background [variable dimensions up to billboard size; 3 x 4m, 2.5
x 5 m etc.].
The posters are displayed on commercial billboards close to the Croatian
borders. A part of the 'Home' icon poster is that there is no further
information at the point of the poster. There is no other product
behind this advertising campaign, i.e. the poster is advertising it's
own image and message.
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The Future of Nostalgia . horticulture unit [flower installation]
The 'Home' icon from Netscape is planted as a 9 x 9 metre flower bad
at the city park close to the railway station in Linz, Austria.
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Search . horticulture unit
The 'Search' interface graphic is planted as a 2.2 x 20 m at the trijunction of Slovakia, Austria and Hungary.
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illegal immigrants dis.information . on-line work
We
are lead into 'home' by repeated iconography of the home button from
Netscape including a page where the icon has grown to a square meter.
One square meter is 2835 x 2835 pixels, thus the image size vary dependent
on user's monitor resolution. Once you get beyond the 'home' icon
there are several home pages. Computer-generated collages of partial
information which are randomly collected from the web are displayed
at different fake home pages. Automation of this technological process
is made with the help of chosen keywords using TraceNoizer art software.
This process renders pages that are less than helpful and a sort of
representation of confused and partial and second hand information.
Powered by works by: Netscape Navigator, Jo van der Spek, TraceNoizer,
Kein Mensch is Illegal
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[Home]|[Search]|[Home]
. series of hand-prints on paper
Series of handprints by stamps with red Chinese ink on paper. Images
coming from 'Home' and 'Search' buttons form Navigation Toolbar of
Netscape Navigator internet browser. Stamps carries Chinese pictograms
for 'Home' and 'Search'.
paper: 300 gpm . each 70 x 100 cm . Stamps are made of jade . pixel
/ stamp size: 2 x 2 cm
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Migrant Navigator: Navigation Toolbar . series of computer graphics
Series of computer graphics making the use of the icons from Netscape
browser navigation toolbar icons: Home - Search - Home - Back - Home
- Forward - Home - Reload - Home - Security - Home - Stop - Home.
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Migrant Navigator
Tools . video work
The video work anticipate all phases of the Migrant Navigator project
within hybrid form of computer animation, documentary film, artist'
documentation and video art.
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