The MINI Museum welcomes “defenestrate//rec” by Laurus Edelbacher

A few weeks ago we announced that the MINI Museum was welcoming submissions from the interwebs. The first selected submission

is the video defenestrate//rec by Austrian artist Laurus Edelbacher.

 

 

Defenestrate is a net based work made with content from Google Images and YouTube, in which the computer interface metaphor of the window is confronted with its real counterpart. “I like the idea of remixing and recycling material, manipulating / glitching it and changing / breaking the context”, writes Edelbacher. “It is important for me to become aware of what we are seeing, not just the closed off windows, but also the frame that contains / isolates them. As a reference I thought about windows which can’t be opened anymore, where you can’t interact with the outside and change the way you see it. Just like the frames on our digital devices, their interface, only allows us to see the surface not what’s beneath it. With this work I want to think / break through this barricade, as if you are throwing something out of a window.”