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Flatness

"It is the flattest and the dullest parts that in the end have the most life." Robert Bresson

Thursday 8 May 2025 17:55:00

  • Holly Antrum Muslin Tree Screen, 2013, online scanned and digital images
  • ‘After Earth’ (2013) by Isobel Harbison
  • Kate Hawkins & Eloise Fornieles Untitled (Hooks), 2011
  • Gil Leung Falling Into or Against (Compression Mix), 2013, HD video, colour, sound, 3 minutes 30 seconds
  • ‘Some Antecedents (of the screen based image)’ 2013 by Anthea Hamilton
  • Ed Atkins Tease for Warm, Warm, Warm Spring Mouths, 2013
  • ‘Watching a Werner Herzog Film on Kickstarter: On neoliberal creativity, the logic of business, and the regime of art’ 2013 by Mercedes Bunz
  • ‘The Moving Image’ 2013 by Jason Dungan
  • ‘Carton Charisma and the Cucumber Orca’ 2013 by Nicholas Hatfull
  • ‘Flatlands - VIP’ 2013 by Jonathan P Watts
  • ‘Learning from IKEA: Flatness Unpacked’ 2013 by Pil & Galia Kollectiv
  • ‘Manual Labours Manual’ 2013 by Sophie Hope & Jenny Richards
  • ‘Use Me Up - Exhaustion and the limits of the potential to perform’ 2007 by Jan Verwoert
  • Eva Weinmayr Facts and Faxes, 1998
  • ‘Misrecognising Narcissus’ 2010 by Mark Fisher
  • Duncan Marquiss Midday, 2011, 16mm transferred to DV, b/w, silent, 3 minutes
  • ‘Flattening of Affect’ 2013 by Duncan Marquiss
  • Robert M Ochshorn Chewing Time, 2013, video with custom player, 12 minutes
  • ‘Chewing This Interminable Present’ 2013 by Anthony Iles
  • ‘I am inventing you as you are’ 2013 by Ed Atkins
  • ‘Animated Human’ (2013) by Benjamin Fallon
  • Jason Dungan Flows, 2013, video, colour, sound, 20 minutes
  • ‘Hybridise or Disappear’ curated by Oliver Laric, 2013
  • ‘Flatness: Cinema after the Internet’ curated by Shama Khanna, 2013

About

Flatness is a multi-format research and commissioning project engaging in ideas around the screen-based image and immaterial culture after the internet. In inviting contributions by artists, writers and computer specialists the website flatness.eu seeks to test the possibilities and limitations of the web as a creative site and space for encountering artworks.

flatness.eu extends from the artists’ moving image programme ‘Flatness: Cinema after the Internet’ (featuring special screenings by artists Ed Atkins, Anthea Hamilton and Oliver Laric) curated for Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2013; returning to the small screen to present many of the works, research and writing about them, online.

Read an extended interview about the project in Rhizome.

Screening events and discussions relating to Flatness have taken place at international venues including Chisenhale Gallery, Auto Italia, Goldsmiths and The Showroom in London, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, Moderna Museet, Malmö, Western Front and Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver, The Alternative Film/Video Research Forum, Belgrade, Microscope, New York and Rupert, Vilnius, with more to come.

Currently, Flatness is working in collaboration with super_filme, Berlin to curate warehouse, a programme of online and offline screenings, workshops, digital residencies and ethnographic research and writing on digital friction.

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Flatness is curated by Shama Khanna

Web programming by intelligentsia and Reuben Bowles

Supported by Konstfack, Stockholm

All texts, works and images either belong to the artist, author or photographer named or are licensed under the terms of this CC 4.00 certificate.