Re-Move, it sounds like a play on words meaning everything the website contains. In Internet-speak it refers, like the subject line in an e-mail, to the site's theme, re-move / about: movement. It also concerns the principle of the 'wipe' though, the 'sweeping' movement of an invisible border across the screen. In eight short Shockwave films, lia builds a kind of digital, mathematical landscape. 'Playscapes' that produce linear structures according to a number of parameters. Each playscape has several interactive options where the player can influence the course of the process. It is question of searching, since the interfaces do not make themselves readily known. No recognizable Windows interface guiding the user, but a series of miniscule icons, the function of which only become known once you just try. There is no competition, speed or deadline, only fascination with the process. lia doesn't give her players a handbook, each has to find their own way based on their own intuitions and attitudes. The experience of her work stands or falls on the willingness to devote time and interest to what's on offer. Without intervention or investment of energy, the mathematical processes run heedlessly according to pre-set patterns. Each intervention by the player appears to be a disrupting factor that temporarily influences the process, a disturbance in the system. The process reorganizes itself in an unpredictable way and incorporates the player as a factor or parameter. In a certain sense, Lia visualizes a number of natural laws that manifest themselves in various ranges. What applies to processes in the reception of art, is just as recognizable in natural and social laws. Patterns of attraction and rejection, of involvement and alienation, of predictability and surprise play a similar role in the growth patterns of plants and in the social interactions between people. Even the work process of the artist, no matter how mathematical and calculated, contains elements that exclude even programmed events from complete control.
– Geert-Jan Strengholt |
Lia Schitter
Lives and works in Vienna (Austria)
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