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”
“Ask yourself about the provenance, the use, what will become of eache of the objects you take out…”
Nº 6 — To consume/To waste. The ICONOMIST Issue 6 presents itself as a visual and textual essay examining the scars of a society sickened by late capitalism. Inspired by the seminal texts Junkspace by Rem Koolhaas and Infraordinary by Georges Perec, this edition not only observes but dissects neglected spaces, accumulated waste, and the … the-iconomist_issue_6_to_consume_to_waste
They say that the face is the mirror of the soul. They say that images generated by artificial intelligence have no soul, they are like mirages. MIRROR:MIRAGES presents forty-three mysterious artificially generated faces accompanied by excerpts from the short story “The Mirror”, written by Guimarães Rosa, one of the greatest authors of Brazilian literature. In … mirror-mirages_2024
“The World as a Stage” is an experimental film based on images from public security cameras. Evoking William Shakespeare‘s famous phrase, the title suggests that everyday life is constantly under observation, turning us all into actors who play our parts in front of an invisible audience. Just as in the poem “All the World’s a … …