About project
Where was the rainbow on the display before the drop hit it? “I like liquid crystals,” says the artist. “I clean my screen every day. Every time it starts to rain, I pull out my phone. I enjoy it so much that I can see them through the drops.”
Through her long-term work on a series of art projects associated with the term “liquid crystals,” Jana Bernartová has explored the phenomenon of the mutability of digital colour. Digital colour is virtual and is therefore displayed differently on different devices. In the same way, our own perception of colour is different and individual, relative but also culturally conditioned. Although the universal digital colour is always defined by an immutable code, it nevertheless takes different forms. Deviations from the perfect digital pattern are therefore not only a technological problem, but also a call for openness to perceive the diversity and individual relationship of each of us to the world we see. Jana speaks of colours as light reflected or absorbed by real objects. She also sees colour emanating from digital devices. She is a member of her generation and therefore sees what she has been trained to see – red as Coca-Cola or Ferrari, or ultramarine or Parisian blue as a dead 0 0 255 RGB screen.
Within the sound component of the work, the artist shifts the sounds of electromagnetic fields of individual devices (led panel, camera, computer and mouse), inaudible to humans, into the audible tetraplex of the installation.
