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Alice XR, 2019

Promotion for 4-Art Exhibition, "The Digital Baroque," 2022 Digital Baroque Curated by Petra Tomljanovic 18-31st Jan 2022 https://www.4art-technologies.com/4ar... A dizzying eclecticism of form, a dizzying eclecticism of pleasure - that was the grand agenda of the 17th century baroque. Was baroque a style? If so, what are its characteristics and how to account for the countless exceptions? Is it a period? When does it begin or end? What are its geographical boundaries? Is it a concept? The unique Baroque trait recognizes itself in the process of folding, that constantly twists and turns its ways, pushes to infinity, fold over fold, one upon the other. The Baroque style unfurls its folds all the way to infinity. Thanks to today’s advances in information technologies as a direct result of postmodernism, we have everything in parallel: the contrast, the movement, the exuberant detail, deep color, grandeur, and surprise to achieve a sense of awe. And the principle of Fold. Information is constantly being transformed, stretched, augmented, bent, crumpled, intertwined, gathered and dispersed again. Whether in science, philosophy, mathematics, poetry, or art, the Fold—like the baroque itself—resists linear narrative and causality, showing instead decenteredness, instability, and a tension between being and becoming, between concealing and revealing, and between dissolution and unity. This contemporary “baroqueness” is not limited to the seventeenth century, but appears again as the principle of a digital presence. As we are faced with an unprecedented amount of available information, the problem is not needing to make more of it; instead, we need to learn to negotiate the vast quantity that exists. How do we make a passage through this thicket of information—how do we manage it, how do we parcel and package it, organize and distribute it? We should have learned this in the past 20 years: how to deal with the digital plenty. We were cautious as we could not asses if everything around us is fake, is it digital trash, and this made us challenge our focus and differentiate meaning from emptiness. Now, we want to emancipate from the digital noise and talk about the world in our own words. We get a clear view of it, enjoying free speech, knowing of the complexities of the world, its beauty and its ugliness. It is no longer part of the flooding imaginary of the world we lived in 20 years ago. We have left the digital Renaissance, and now we are marking the era of the digital Baroque, as masters of the algorithm. Petra Tomljanovic 2021