Constant Dullaart / 1
His name is not a joke, you can see his passport. Constant Dullaart exchanges a performance with a couple in a porno videochat, shows The Revolving Internet and adds himself in pics of strangers.
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His name is not a joke, you can see his passport. Constant Dullaart exchanges a performance with a couple in a porno videochat, shows The Revolving Internet and adds himself in pics of strangers. |
Constant collects creepy or funny videos published by people on the Internet: selling products, documenting houses, places and objects. This videos are pure, functional, and don't respect the rules that are taught in art schools. |
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He loves to use pre-existing material: there are so many images out there and anyone can make the aesthetical decision to re-contextualize them, like testing images for color televisions by Philips. Constant fell in love with bridges that go nowhere: are they sculptures or what? |
When you upload a video in YouTube, you can press a button to make your video look better and more professional: this feature changes the light, stabilizes the image and so on. So he applied this feature on an earthquake in Japan. |
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So he started a kind of meta-YouTube discussion and he's proud to be part of it. Then he was asked to curate an exhibition about Internet art, so he made the YouTube stuff physical, but then people filmed it and put it back online, becoming the comment to the same discussion. But don't forget that YouTube is not a computer: YouTube is a guy making a lot of money. |
Q&A. SOPA, PIPA, ACTA, copyright: Constant's opinion as an artist remixing material form the Internet. "In these days of technological advancement we do not need to have our culture held for ransom by price agreements, and lazy distribution moguls. This is why I basically try to avoid content owned by these larger copyright holders, and I believe everyone should do the same. |
