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«Cool clouds that look like they should be spelling something, but they don't»
2016, Stefan Karrer
Duration: 08:30
Exhibition: 24. October — 23. November 2019
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With his video work «Cool clouds that look like they should be spelling something, but they don't» artist Stefan Karrer gives an insight into his PC desktop. In an endless loop, picture after picture, cloud after cloud after cloud opens up. Karrer found them during an online research when he searched for keywords like «cloud» and «wave» in connection with adjectives like «cool», «crazy» or «lonely». A monotonous, computer-generated female voice leads the viewer through the folders of this collection of images and keywords. She reads the comments with which the photos of clouds and wave formations were originally posted.

Karrer's desktop video reflects contemporary media use in a humorous and rhetorically clear way. It strikingly illustrates the pitfalls of online research, when the seemingly subjective moments in nature become uniform sensations through the constant descriptions and classifications of the images on the Internet. The fact that the shared images on the Internet do not correspond to the real moments is also made clear in the comments.