Contra-Internet: Inversion Practices

2015–16

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Robert Leckie

“Get Off the Internet!: Zach Blas’s Contra-Internet Inversion Practice #1.” Rhizome.

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The Contra-Internet: Inversion Practices series confronts the transformation of the internet into an instrument for state oppression and accelerated capitalism. Invoking a practice of utopian plagiarism, Inversion Practices utilizes queer and feminist methods to speculate on internet futures and network alternatives.

Contra-Internet: Inversion Practices is distributed by Arsenal Institut für Film und Videokunst e.V. and Video Data Bank.

Inversion Practice #1: Constituting an Outside (Utopian Plagiarism) (2015): single-channel HD video (color with sound, 16:9, 5:57 min., looped)

Inversion Practice #2: Social Media Exodus (Call and Response) (2015):  single-channel HD video (color with sound, 16:9, 3:20 min., looped)

Inversion Practice #3: Modeling Paranodal Space (2016): single- channel HD video (color with sound, 16:9, 3:02 min., looped)

Related Works

Credits

  • Writer, Editor, Performer, and Screen Recording: Zach Blas

 

Contra-Internet Inversion Practice #3: Modeling Paranodal Space

      •  Commissioned by Art in General, New York, USA
      • 3D Modeling and Animation: Adam Sinclair