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For Constant Dullaart digital media are not just means of transport for content and facts but first and foremost the subject of his media-analytical artistic strategy. In DVD Screensaver Performance, conceived as a series, one sees the artist in various places, such as in the Joshua Tree desert, in his living room or in the Museum of Applied Art in Vienna. He is holding a bunch of differently coloured oval signs with the DVD logo in his hand, which for several minutes he moves diagonally from one edge of the screen to the other. As soon as the logo touches the edge of the respective video display the artist changes the card and so changes the colour. If a playback machine does not contain a storage medium or is in stand-by mode, the movements right across the screen, which the DVD logo carries out in a standardised way, are imitated by Constant Dullaart and reconstructed using analogue means. DVD Screensaver Performance is about an attempt to push a technological procedure that is little noticed in everyday life into the field of view and to demonstrate both the performative potential of technological arrangements as well as their standard design.

DVD Screensaver Performance (2011), by Constant Dullaart