Thu 5.9. 10:00 – 12:30; 14:30 – 16:30
Fri 6.9. 10:00 – 12:30, 14:30 – 16:30
Sat 7.9. 10:00 – 12:30
Sun 8.9. 10:00 – 12:30, 14:30 – 16:30
Brucknerhaus
Careless dealings with one’s personal data and, in many cases, an almost obsessive urge to expose one’s private affairs in public social networks motivated artist Doris Graf (DE) to take action. For her Pikträts, she interviews internet users—including visitors to the Ars Electronica Festival. She impudently pries into precisely those data that social websites prefer to gather with soberly worded online forms, and then depicts the qualities and characteristics of her interlocutors in the form of pictograms. Framed and arranged in rows and columns, the Pikträts clearly reveal the extent to which human individuality on the internet—despite all promises of personality development—is reduced to a few facts for the purpose of economic utility.
