SCREENSAVER is a continuous digital installation hosted on THE-ICONOMIST website, conceived as a perpetual stream of images collected, archived, and automatically recombined. Inspired by old screen savers, which prevented monitor burn-in while revealing accidental aesthetics. Each visit to the site activates a visual algorithm that reorganizes images from personal archives, public databases, and found fragments, … screensaver by the iconomist
“Everything has to be reconstructed every day, every hour, every moment in my own brain and in the brain of the other.” “Metaphors for the mind”
THE-ICONOMIST is a third generation research project, an artist’s magazine and observatory founded in 2021.
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Nº 6 — To consume/To wasteNº 5 — To watch/To speculateNº 4 — To ask/To answerNº 3 — To catalogueNº 2 — To wearNº 1 — To collect
“Taking its name from economist Gilson Schwartz’s 2006 neologism ‘Iconomy’ while also nodding to longstanding news weekly The Economist, THE-ICONOMIST questions our relationship with images in this era of image saturation with each issue using verbs as its themes.” — MAGCULTURE.com