anonymous-warhol_flowers
Digital collages, digital prints, silkscreens, painting, wall painting, since 2004
[Inside the book, p. 54]
The project examines image and discourse production typical of a networked culture. The images produced in the distributed network stand for more than themselves. They represent the manner in which they were produced, their being embedded in processes of dialogue and exchange as well as the dynamic connections and continuous data stream that thwarts conventional categories of identification and authorship. The production of images is limitless, collaborative and networked, and it is accompanied by an expansion of the pictorial concept. Like the machines from which they emanate, the produced images are not autonomous, but networked instead by art history, algorithms and human interactions with the machine.
Cornelia Sollfrank chose Warhol's flowers as the motif for her project. This motif not only symbolically denotes the supraindividual production of images perfected by Warhol, which Sollfrank updated for the digital age with the invention of her networked image machine, but which also enables her to achieve an interesting pendular movement from the visual to the conceptual and back again. Through its history of multiple appropriations, the motif additionally harbors the discourse concerning the concepts of artistic copyright violation, originality and authorship.
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