Artist Statement

“interference” is a video about the intricate relation between the backbone internet system and its increasingly important role in society. Corporations do absolutely everything to avoid power failure in the system, as we depend in many different ways on the stability of data transmission. The visual construction suggests some kind of interference through the use of flashing images of both Dubai and New York on a background of slowly moving cloud formation. The background being a long five minutes “plan sequence”. Waves and cooling fans are used in the soundtrack in order to suggest the cyclic, constant and never ending flow of information. The distance between the Dubai and N.Y. skyline with their emblematic towers, serve as the ultimate symbol for air to ground connectedness and capitalist ambition.

It is part of a larger body of work including other videos and large format photographic images of internet servers. Reference to this work is available at denisfarleyart.com/networks–réseaux.html

• Denis Farley lives and works as a professional artist and photographer in Montreal, Canada. He completed a Master’s degree in fine arts at Concordia University in 1984. He is currently teaching part time at Université du Québec in Montreal (UQÀM). His work has been exhibited in Canada, the United States and Europe, and is part of several private and public collections. Including those of the Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in Ottawa, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Photography in Charleroi and the Fonds National d’Art Contemporain in Paris. denisfarleyart.com