New Video Art By Harun Farocki Questions Our 30 Year Tie To CGI

When contemporary intellectualls make major statements on video, we take note.

German-born video essayist Harun Farocki, whose body of work includes seminal film treatise, Workers Leaving the Factory, has completed the premiere showing of his newest work, Parallele, at Paris' Galerie Thaddeus Ropac. The four-film cycle marks the culmination of the artist's two-year plunge into the world of contemporary computer-generated graphics, in an effort to question the influence of our thirty-year-long history of technologically-aided image production.

From the Press Release: "The four-part cycle Parallele deals with the image genre of computer animation. Computer animations are currently becoming a general model, surpassing film. In films, there is the wind that blows and the wind that is produced by a wind machine. Computer images do not have two kinds of wind."

To mark Farocki's 70th birthday, as well as his solo exhibition at the National Gallery in Berlin, German-publisher (not Chekov from Star Trek) Walter Koenig will be publishing the retrospective Harun Farocki - Diagrams: Images from Ten Films. The book features never-before reproduced images culled from ten of Farocki's 90+ films, and five exhibitions. Snag a copy here in the coming weeks.

Farocki's solo exhibition at the National Gallery of Berlin is ongoing through the end of July. 

Images from Parallele I-IV.

h/t ContemporaryArtDaily