A Machine painting Reality. Like an insect resting and suddenly bursting out of colour. Colourfull streams bursting out of its sting. Insect-like machinery spits out rainbowcoloured environments.

Invisible Technology

Does the general public understand a circuit? Do we need to understand the routines and processes, which allow the digital world to appear magically on our screen? Does an image of this exist? Can we see this hidden technology?

Can we comprehend an image of this at all? Is there an image of technology?
What defines an image? In a time when images supposedly depict the world accurately without ever having seen the light of this physical world, the question of what defines an image should be reconsidered. An image, as consequence of living within our digital lifestyle, must be defined beyond its literal representation. An image is now more than a symbol, its something new, something invisible.

Our current technology, which creates images without a standardized form of representation, has no standards to follow itself. It is imaginary, virtual, continually in flux, hovering between the real and unreal. An accumulation of ones and zeros has no representation. What could symbolize this technology? The cold circuit board of a computer’s graphic card? A disassembled hard drive?

No, all this is insufficient. A representation of this technology demands an image devoid of the standard archetypes. We must create our own images, perhaps imagine something that on one hand speaks to reality and on the other creates a face for the invisible. We must devise a face for this elusive machine, which constantly eludes depiction.

The art behind an interface is making the technology invisible. The interface is not a face, it’s an un-face. It´s the face that blinds us from the fact that technology is faceless. The image is the vanished face without tangible representation.

When the art of imagery is to depict the invisible, we should not search for this illusory image beneath the image, but we must think further. We must create colorful masks for the technology until it no longer recognizes itself anymore. This mask is the face beyond the face. If the image is the invisible face, then the mask is a symbol of its invisibility. This mask must maintain its invisibility precisely until the moment when it becomes conscious of its plunge into a visually representational world.