Who is\u2026? is a body of work presenting with texts, photos and videos artist\u2019s portraits created by Swedish artist Magnus B\u00e4rt\u00e5s. These \u00abbiographies\u00bb articulate themselves around a series of statements, short sentences reconstituted through the memories of conversations between the author and the artists met randomly during journeys throughout the world.<\/p>\n
Agence TOPO proposes a multimedia adaptation of B\u00e4rt\u00e5s\u2019 work. Taking for starting point the narrative method of the artist, Agence TOPO adds an element of creation to it by opening a section where the Net surfers can in their turn build a portrait. (Notes about adapting B\u00e4rt\u00e5s\u2019 work for the Web)<\/p>\n
In its interactive form, the project plays with the questions of identity with the Internet. Between the \u201cgooglisation\u201d of the people, the multiplication of the data banks and the self-representation of the Net surfers who draw themselves a profile real or idealized in the community\u2019s sites, the questions of identity remain fundamental while being sources of fiction, of staging.<\/p>\n
Translated into several languages (French, English, Spanish, Swedish, Russian and Latvian), the original work of B\u00e4rt\u00e5s makes it possible TOPO to approach the universalization of the communities increasingly curious to communicate and elucidate the eternal mystery of Who is\u2026 Who?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Who is\u2026? is a body of work presenting with texts, photos and videos artist\u2019s portraits created by Swedish artist Magnus B\u00e4rt\u00e5s. These \u00abbiographies\u00bb articulate themselves around a series of statements, short sentences reconstituted through the memories of conversations between the author and the artists met randomly during journeys throughout the world. Agence TOPO proposes a Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[7,5],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n