Steffko - Die Kunst #1

STEFFKO - DIE KUNST #1

Steffko - Die Kunst #1 is a long term multimedia project initiated in 2010. With an emphasis on post-virtual performative expression as found in social networks brought into context with personality, identity and gender as a construct, the project has taken form through a wide range of digital and transmedial work.

Steffko - Die Kunst #1 are virtual performative personas. As an alienated reflection of the human psyche being exposed to the web 2.0, the main interest of Steffko - Die Kunst #1 lies in topics such as online performance, internet as a stage, virtual personality, virtual image and virtual self-representation. The discipline-fluid works cross over into the dramatic, exploring the theatrical concepts of mask and contour in a post-technological sense, often destructing pop culture elements and aesthetics. Moreover, Steffko - Die Kunst #1 is participating in a feminist discourse, exploring the visual and performative spectrum of gender and sexuality through influences of dance and body art.

These ideas are met with a transmedial approach, mainly expressed through performances, installations and experimental digital videos. Even before face and image filter trends on social media emerged, the project explored the possibilities of filters and layering through digital video editing and has somewhat foreseen social today’s media reality. The works can be understood as symbolistically aestheticised studies of virtual social phenomena.

A selection Steffko - Die Kunst #1 GIF works is represented by Rina Grinn Virtual Space.

Steffko - Die Kunst #1 on instagram @diekunst1
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