Topographic Resolutions II considers the intersection of computer graphics and landscape in a range of recent video works. The exhibition is a sequel to Topographic Resolutions I, a project organised at Screen Space in 2014, which was co-curated by Simone Hine and Kyle Weise.
Topographic Resolutions I presented a series self-contained installations of historical works, from the turn of the twenty-first century, by established international artists Nicolas Moulin, Kelly Richardson and Patricia Piccinini. A theme across the works in this first iteration, with their pensive representation of landscape, was the digital imitation, or mutation, of analogue photography. Topographic Resolutions II includes more recent works placed together in a group exhibition format. In contrast to the previous iteration, the works here, and their imagined landscapes, are more overtly concerned with the codes and materiality of their digital construction (in terms of software and hardware), rather than a formal relationship to the photographic. Yet, shared across both projects, is an appeal to landscape as an enduring metaphorical and formal reference within the context of computer-generated imagery and its distribution.
Harun Farocki, Parallel I-IV
Screening and Panel Discussion
Institute of Modern Art
In conjunction with the curated exhibition, Topographic Resolutions II, Kuiper Projects and the IMA present a panel discussion and screening that considers the relationship between landscape and computer generated imagery, both within contemporary art and the wider culture.
The event will include a screening of Harun Farocki’s four-part video, Parallel I-IV (2012-14, 45mins). One of Farocki’s final works, Parallel I-IV is a late example of his signature style, incorporating found footage, documentary research and voiceover to construct a visual essay on the digital image, its forms and development.
Preceding the screening will be a panel discussion with artists Baden Pailthorpe and Kathryn-Brimblecome-Fox and curator Kyle Weise. Here, the artists will discuss their own practice, and their relationship to computer-generated imagery and landscape, and the entanglement of this with militarism, a theme found across Farocki’s career. This discussion will also frame Parallel I-IV within the context of the curated exhibition, Topographic Resolutions II which this screening forms a part of.
Image: Tristan Jalleh, Cloud City, 2019, HD Video, Stereo Sound, 4min20sec.
