We have long been surrounded by information technology, gradually becoming information nodes. The screen in the broader sense is non-flat, mobile, movable, constituting a complete ecosystem. Screens have become immersed within our culture allowing us to be interconnected as a whole. As digital screen users, we have been developed into a screen generation where we become the screen itself.

In new media artist aaajiao's upcoming solo exhibition at C-Space - The Screen Generation: Prequel, the artist will be presenting six of his newest works. While differing from the artist's previous solo exhibitions which showcased logical enquiries and research on data itself, this presentation will be a more personal experience for the audience.

The six pieces that make up The Screen Generation are Soft, Repeatedly, Hard, Pure, Static,and Noise, the artworks all exist and begin as digital applications developed by the artist. In asking, “What is ‘human’ in relation to aaajiao’s works?” a fundamental aspect of his work is then seen to be these screens. It might be interesting to think that the human is in some way constituted by the information that the screen projects out, which then meets the human, the audience, half way. The human is the other to the screen, as the screen is to the human. aaajiao is the creator of an ecosystem between the human and the screen, one that constitutes each from the other.

Courtesy of C-Space