Digital Practices in Contemporary Art: From Monochrome to Transgenic Kits

Jan Robert Leegte reserved the IP address 64.90.48.70 in 2008 to host a digital monochrome referencing Yves Klein's International Klein Blue, registered with INPI in 1960. Daniel Rozin created mechanical mirrors like Wooden Mirror (late 1990s) and Rust Mirror (2009) using non-reflective materials controlled digitally. Du Zhenjun's photograph The Tower of Babel: The Accident (2010) collages monuments sourced from the internet. Julien Lévesque's Street Views Patchwork (2009) automatically recombines Google Street View images. Samuel Bianchini's All Over (2009) uses ASCII art to depict financial trading floors. The collective HeHe (Helen Evans and Heiko Hansen) produced Nuage Vert (2010), using green lasers to outline steam from an incinerator in Ivry-sur-Seine, despite a prefectural ban. Lawrence Malstaf's Mirror (2002) alters the viewer's image through mechanical movement. Aram Bartholl's WoW (2009) workshop at Laguna Art Museum had participants wear their names on poles, referencing World of Warcraft. Xavier Veilhan's The Architects (2009) uses 3D scanning to create polygon sculptures of architects like Richard Rogers. Eduardo Kac's Cypher (2009) is a DIY transgenic kit encoding a poem about genetic perfection, and Aromapoetry (2011) traps scent molecules at nanoscale.