exonemo
Realm, 02.06.2020
The new work Realm by the Japanese artist duo exonemo invites users to explore a website which is displayed differently depending on whether the user runs the desktop or mobile version of the browser – allowing either touch or vision. Realm was visible from 26.5 to 2.6.2020 here: exonemo.com/realm/
exonemo was formed in 1996 and consists of Sembo Kensuke and Akaiwa Yae. They explore digital technologies in a playful and entertaining way and have created online works since the early years of the World Wide Web. More particularly, their work investigates the inconsistencies between analogue and digital tools and between physical and virtual reality. They also organize collective events, such as the Internet Yami-Ichi, a fleamarket of net-based things.
Statement by the artists: "We know that we are in between here and there, the natural and the man-made, or the future and the past. And will always see a realm there. Someone is advertising that it could be touched, but no one has ever touched it and no one knows about that."