The Drop Shadow Talks: Scrollbars, Selections and Ornaments, Jan Robert Leegte

The Drop Shadow Talks: Scrollbars, Selections and Ornaments, Jan Robert Leegte

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With the current generation of operating systems the drop shadow effect entered the graphical user interface to a new extent. In this context it raises not only windows from background wallpapers; it also stands for a visually enriched interface that strives towards three-dimensionality. Loaded with rich imagery, photorealistic icons and pseudo three-dimensional configurations the graphical user interface yet remains tied to its ?at medium. Bewildered by this paradox, the graphical user interface leaves the office it was made for and becomes a pop culture phenomenon.

This season the Drop Shadow Talks reply to current developments on the visually enriched layer for machine interaction. In the shades of evening lectures the Drop Shadow Talks will present art and projects in?uenced and inspired by the baroque graphical user interface.

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Talk 4, Artist talk
December 3, 7 pm
Scrollbars, Selections and Ornaments
Jan Robert Leegte, Amsterdam

Jan Robert Leegte is a Dutch artist living and working in Amsterdam. Leegte's installation work isolates elements of Windows' interface that in turn are projected onto various structures. This alienates the elements from their original function and makes them into familiar but also indefinable aesthetic objects.

The Drop Shadow Talks are organized by and located at
Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule, Hochschule für Gestaltung (FH)
Bernburger Straße 24—25, D-10963 Berlin