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Christof Berthold & Marcuse Hafner // Car/go/graphy // Salzburger Landespreis für Medienkunst 2014

Christof Berthold & Marcuse Hafner // Car/go/graphy // Salzburger Landespreis für Medienkunst 2014

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September 18, 2015

Alte Saline, Hallein, Austria

  • Friday, 18 September 2015 | Alte Saline, Hallein, Austria

Festival

The project emerged as a repeated question about the abstract nature of globalization, locating itself at the interface between art and cultural studies and devoting itself to a particular manifestation of the impact of a global 2nd-hand economy - the” car cards. ” Invitations to sell them on the windshields of parked cars act as constituent elements of a cultural field.

Car | go | graphy discovers the aesthetics of these cards, the genealogy of the characters and the visual grammar of the symbols, which form part of the culture of the transitory and the everyday. In addition to...
The project emerged as a repeated question about the abstract nature of globalization, locating itself at the interface between art and cultural studies and devoting itself to a particular manifestation of the impact of a global 2nd-hand economy - the” car cards. ” Invitations to sell them on the windshields of parked cars act as constituent elements of a cultural field.

Car | go | graphy discovers the aesthetics of these cards, the genealogy of the characters and the visual grammar of the symbols, which form part of the culture of the transitory and the everyday. In addition to the genesis of knowledge, the focus of the project is on the transfer of the same through the visualization of hidden factors and actors.