Abstract
The thesis investigates shifts in the styles and contexts of contemporary painting in the framework of screen media and digital culture, focusing on the concept of the “Green Screen” (Gronlund, 2016). This intangible vision is reflected in the growing number of artists from all over the world such as Trey Abdella (USA), Gao Hang (China), Eleanor Swordy (USA), Vojtěch Kovařík (Czech Republic), Ralf Kokke (Holland), Danica Lundy (Canada), Dan Coombs (UK) and others are making a range of painting-related work around digital imagery, internet-derived figures, marginalised picture archetypes, and low-quality online photography. First, I examine screen-based characteristics in my own painting practice. I attempt to use the concept of the “green screen” as a metaphor for the artist's invisible juxtaposition of violence-laden images and the flattening of the way they are created. The visual turn addresses a response of contemporary art to the technology of image dissemination, the algorithmic processing of large databases of dematerialised invisibility, which encompasses artists’ fascination with and enthusiasm for what Hito Steyerl (2009) called as “poor image.” In their repetitive appropriation and reinvestment of images, these contemporary painters challenge the traditional space of the data sublime and the decommodification of images through works that force the viewer to gaze into the abyss of low-quality images simulated in the frame.
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Haiyu Yuan, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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Conference: IICAH2025
Stream: Arts - Visual Arts Practices
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Yuan H. (2025) An Ongoing Visual Turn About Contemporary “Green Screen” Painting ISSN: 2432-4604 – The IAFOR International Conference on Arts & Humanities – Hawaii 2025 Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 37-50) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2432-4604.2025.4
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2432-4604.2025.4
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