Andy Deck: Screening Circle
2006
Andy Deck: Screening Circle
Andy Deck, screenshot of Screening Circle, launched March 22, 2006
Andy Deck’s Screening Circle adapts the cultural tradition of the quilting circle to an online format. Visitors to the site can enter the drawing area to compose loops of graphics and affect and edit one another’s screens. The pieces can be made by one person or by several people, and the arrangement of the segments thus can register as either haphazard or precise. In the screening area, the resulting motion graphics are on view instantaneously. The “circle” invoked in the title refers to the circle of participants and also, indirectly, to the loop of images produced. “Screening” references the pre-release playback of a cinematic work during the filmmaking process, a kind of viewing that allows people to exert some influence over the final product.
Screening Circle was the third in a series of three works co-commissioned in collaboration with Tate Online. Critical texts and video interviews with the artists accompany the works at Tate.
Read more at tate.org.uk.
Andy Deck (b. 1968; Monterey, California) has been at the forefront of aesthetic research into the creative possibilities of the internet as a medium. Deck combines code, text, and image to demonstrate new patterns of participation and control that distinguish online presence and representation from previous artistic practices. Deck has shown his works in numerous online exhibitions and at venues such as Moving Image Gallery (1999–2001), Postmasters Gallery (1984–2025), MediaNoche (2003–16), Location One (1998–2013), and MoMA PS1 in New York; ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany; Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona; Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo; HTTP Gallery, London; Mejan Labs (2006–8), Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm; Plato Sanat, Istanbul (2013–17); Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh; and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. His work has been awarded prizes and honorary mentions by LÚMEN_EX Digital Art Awards (2011); Prix Ars Electronica (1998); the Webby Awards (2003); VIDA 4.0 (2001); the Biennial of Ibiza (2009), and the Web Biennial 10, Istanbul (2010), among others.
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