All Over
Samuel Bianchini, All Over, 2009.
All Over is a beautiful internet piece currently on show in the brand new “virtual space” of the Jeu de Paume, Paris. From the press release: “‘All Over‘ is a piece of Internet art involving a series of images formed exclusively out of typographic characters, in the manner of ASCII art, made by using the display techniques of the first computers. Here, however, the figures and letters composing the images are dynamic and keep changing: they are generated in real time by the financial flows on stock exchanges around the world. Originating in fixed photographs, these transformed images are thus dependent on financial movements, which both feed and disrupt them at the same time. Destabilised by their system of representation, their meaning too becomes unstable. These pictures without captions seem to be constantly struggling for their visibility and their uncertain reality: demonstration, traders, supporters, a religious or political rally?”
