The BLaCK MiRRoR/WHyTe WiNDoW project, at its core is about identity and how technology has affected and can affect artist identity, and how the artist interacts with the public and how the public interacts with art. It is a group project that has included the work of several artists but culminated in an art show curated by Joachim West at Beefhaus in Dallas.
The BLaCK MiRRoR/WHyTe WiNDoWproject has used and abused video blogs, experimental video, live performances, Google Translate, digital collage, poetry, tumblr, language, volunteers, a massive amount of dating websites, numerous blogs, opera, photography and every aspect of Facebook. It has trolled the internet in numerous ways, utilizing search engine optimization, hacked video view counts and comments and even had its own underground radio program. For the outsider looking into the BLaCK MiRRoR/ WHyTe WiNDoW project it is hard to tell what is real and what is fake, who is who, what is true and who said what. It gained a large viewership with a large audience yet it remained a mystery to the vast majority of people who saw it.
Outsiders looking into the Whyte Window/Black Mirror/Black Burka project struggle to discern realities such as who is who, what is true and who said what. “I don’t know who these people are, but I am glad to have known their work,” remarked artist Joachim West in a Facebook thread from 2014. Despite the mass following, Whyte Window, Black Mirror and Black Burka have remained a mystery to the vast majority of people who encounter their work.
This body of work began with imaginary artist characters on Facebook, masks for the real artists who controlled them. The project began by tagging images with light and dark figures as Black Mirror and Whyte Window and today this continues as Facebook friends of the characters continue to tag them in photographs.
https://www.facebook.com/black.mirror.940?ref=br_rs
https://www.facebook.com/whyte.window?fref=ts
The BLaCK MiRRoR/WHyTe WiNDoWproject has used and abused video blogs, experimental video, live performances, Google Translate, digital collage, poetry, tumblr, language, volunteers, a massive amount of dating websites, numerous blogs, opera, photography and every aspect of Facebook. It has trolled the internet in numerous ways, utilizing search engine optimization, hacked video view counts and comments and even had its own underground radio program. For the outsider looking into the BLaCK MiRRoR/ WHyTe WiNDoW project it is hard to tell what is real and what is fake, who is who, what is true and who said what. It gained a large viewership with a large audience yet it remained a mystery to the vast majority of people who saw it.
Outsiders looking into the Whyte Window/Black Mirror/Black Burka project struggle to discern realities such as who is who, what is true and who said what. “I don’t know who these people are, but I am glad to have known their work,” remarked artist Joachim West in a Facebook thread from 2014. Despite the mass following, Whyte Window, Black Mirror and Black Burka have remained a mystery to the vast majority of people who encounter their work.
This body of work began with imaginary artist characters on Facebook, masks for the real artists who controlled them. The project began by tagging images with light and dark figures as Black Mirror and Whyte Window and today this continues as Facebook friends of the characters continue to tag them in photographs.
https://www.facebook.com/black.mirror.940?ref=br_rs
https://www.facebook.com/whyte.window?fref=ts
The exposition at Beefhaus in Dallas manifested this complex and extensive experiment in digital art trolling into a formal art show.
The long-awaited Whyte Window / Black Mirror / Black Burka Art Show culminated four years of the public’s media interaction with the illusive artists Whyte Window, Black Mirror and Black Burka in an artistic immersion of visual, digital and performance media. The show addressed the interface of technology and artistic identity with work reflecting on how artists interact with the public and how the public interacts with art.
http://frontrow.dmagazine.com/2015/04/why-are-more-dallas-artists-destroying-their-art/
http://www.thrwd.com/2015/04/06/late-recap-whyte-windowblack-mirrorblack-burka-art-show-beefhaus/
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/crane-collapses-onto-dallas-museum-of-art-285103
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