Brigade is pleased to announce the opening of "big-data-who-changed-the-business-world-through-the-sun" by Rune Bering (b. 1984).
Brigade is proud to present 'big-data-who-changed- the-business-world-through-the-sun', a solo exhibition by Danish artist Rune Bering (b. 1984). Bering's artistic practice can be described as that of an excavator and editor. Amongst technological developments, marketing strategies, and political agendas, Bering searches for what things consist of, their production, and their context. The artist works with found systems that he stages through new materials and forms.
Focusing on seemingly banal objects that we deal with on a daily basis, he persistently hones in on the glitches, disconnects, and breaches of interpretation between subjective choices and existing protocols. In this exhibition, Rune Bering continues his artistic exploration of the infrastructures that create the frameworks of meaning of our digital media, cultures, and practices, through photogravure, laser print and sculpture.
'big-data-who-changed-the-business-world-through- the-sun' explores personal information as a major currency in the global digital economy, where this data is voraciously collected and traded. Metadata is embedded in the traces we constantly leave, often unknowingly, to be potentially decrypted, analysed, and used for profiling. Bering's metadata ziplocks are examples of the kind of information that can be extracted from the personal photographs of where his life takes place-the location of his studio and his apartment-but also of random moments, such as the exact time, height, and speed when he was on a plane, right above the Bermuda triangle. Bering's personal metadata bags are taken out of their digital cloud storage into the Plexiglas encasing of photogravure prints. The value of such data, potentially subject to clandestine monetization online, now becomes the artistic subject in its new context of the art market.
June 15, 2023
