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Fig. 16.9
A screenshot of
Shades of Absence: Outside Inside
, 2011, Tamiko Thiel, augmented
reality, copyright Tamiko Thiel. Description: In honour of artists, whether art world insiders or
outsiders, who have been censored via threats of arrest or physical violence. Venice Biennale 2011
Intervention
In
Shades of Absence: Outside Inside,
Tamiko Thiel inserted into the closed
curatorial space of the Giardini concourse in Venice the silhouetted figures of
artists who have been threatened with arrest or physical violence (see Fig.
16.9
).
Regardless of whether they are outsiders or insiders to the Art System, known
internationally or only within small circles, their work has excluded these artists
from the safety of protected space (see Fig.
16.10
).
28 is an artwork that is secret, or invisible or in some way a 'revelation' in space
also takes on an aesthetic element shaped by the artist's being an outsider. The
author Mariano Equizi has made a urban story telling based on augmented reality,
a conspiracy and psychedelic novel on power and control . The Reader-Player-
Explorator-Nomad will move around the city like a character from Paul Auster NYC
trilogy.
The work 28 has a almost cinematic narrative dimension that is the newness of the
project, overlaying and unites several spaces into one, making artistic use of time,
movement and data or information in a space defined by growth in technological
interaction in a data-space. 28 speaks to a public on the move, to a public that
is mobile and not stationary, obliging us to realize that the media that we wear
are part of the objects that make up our world. It is a conceptualization of a
