Facebook Terror

Facebook Terror

Location: MQ Facebook page, MQ Twitter channel, STREET ART PASSAGE VIENNA

This project explores a wide variety of issues: popular cultural communication tools available to public institutions, semipublic voting processes on social media platforms, the public perception of these media and their effects, and the integrity of contemporary art, artists, and institutions in general.

Viennese artist Alexander Ruthner will paint three pictures to be presented on the <link http: www.facebook.com museumsquartierwien>MQ Facebook page. For five days, Facebook users can decide in a vote which of these three works will be displayed in full size in the STREET ART PASSAGE VIENNA. During the project, the discourse will focus on how social media have changed the way we communicate and influenced the way artists present themselves and their work.
Almost all of the visual communication with the public takes place through the installation by artist <link http: hustlerwhite.tumblr.com>Lukas Gansterer, whose photographs emphasize the strong role of exhibitionism and self-importance in social networks.

The project marks the beginning of a long-term partnership between STREET ART PASSAGE VIENNA and BLK River. The project deals with altered communication behaviour in social media and its effects on the integrity of contemporary art and artists. The discussion can be followed on twitter:
<link https: twitter.com mqwien>@mqwien
<link https: twitter.com quartier21>@quartier21

#fbterror

Alexander Ruthner
Alexander Ruthner’s work explores the medium of painting, its process, and its application. It can be understood as a means to reflect on media and introduce questions that remain unanswered; the point, after all, is not so much to take a clear position as it is to present facts in a way that appropriately reflects their complexity. 
<link https: www.facebook.com einemagazin>Facebook page of Alexander Ruthner
<link http: spikeart.at de l friends lives_and_works>Interview with Alexander Ruthner

BLK River
BLK River views itself as an initiative for art in public spaces that seeks to expand awareness of this form of encountering contemporary art. 
The Danube is sometimes also called the Black River, but less due to the quality of the water than to the fact that it flows from its source in the Black Forest to the Black Sea. And because the color black is not just a physical phenomenon, but on the basis of cultural traditions is also associated with values like radicalness and differentness, Sydney Ogidan’s team decided to take the Black River as an inspiration for the name they chose.

BLK River focuses on developing art projects and creative positioning for brands, companies, and the public sector.
<link http: www.facebook.com blkriver>Facebook Page of BLK River
<link http: www.blkriver.at>www.blkriver.at
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