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  Liquid Crystals R0G0B255 | 2016 - 2017

The exhibition Liquid Crystals R0G0B255 is a part of the eponymous project currently developed by Jana Bernartová which focuses on the issue of digital colors and their interpretation. Digital color is virtual in its very nature, and is therefore realized differently on different devices and different displaying methods. The relativity of existence of colors which may very well lack the Platonic essence of absolute ideas, being subject to changeability of the framework of perception (physiologically as well as due to cultural and language systems used, as was pointed out for instance by Ludwig Wittgenstein) is made even more evident in relation to digital transfer. The universal digital color expressed by means of unchanging code has, once it leaves the „black box“, various „incarnation“ which show various deviation from their perfect digital archetype. These deviations nevertheless cannot be seen merely as defects – as the author herself says: „Given the fundamental properties of a digital work as defined by the theoretician Lev Manovich, several versions of a work may coexist at once and be modular.“ Digital data, in its visual and non-visual form are to me a sort of alpha and omega – the central point of my interest.“ Therefore also in relation to digital media, the illusory concept of an absolute ideal is replaced by coexistence of a plurality of realized versions.