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Intimate Remoteness:
The Clouds of Berndnaut Smilde Type: Essay Published in: The Low Countries Link: Full article Date: June 2019 |
"Nimbus 2 has been lauded as a contemporary return to the romanticism of the pre-digital era, yet its effective immediacy is, arguably, based in a more critical attitude to the contemporary moment, created through similarities between Smilde’s man-made cloud and the man-made Internet. This essay will investigate how Smilde’s Nimbus series can be read as a complex, highly crafted response to a society steeped in alienating data-systems, a dreamed-up mirage for digital citizens looking for a “real" experience."
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