We are excited to announce that Androids Dream will be screened on March 26 2022 at the Interactive Museum of Cinema in Milan as part of MMF MMXXII.
The Milan Machinima Festival is delighted to present the world premiere of David Blandy’s latest video work.
In Androids Dream, the artist deconstructs the cyberpunk aesthetic, an aesthetic defined by such now canonical works such as William Gibson’s Neuromancer and Riley Scott’s Blade Runner. Androids Dream is made of layers of multiple simulacra, from the Unreal Engine assets that look like a cyberpunk video game, to the appropriation of Hideo Kojima’s Snatcher, itself a replay of Blade Runner in videogame form, through to the voiceover spoken by an algorithmic mimesis of Blandy’s own voice, a deepfake. The film breaks down the form, and in turn breaks down, repeating, refracting, and going into reverse.
David Blandy’s practice consists of in-depth investigations into the pop cultural forces that he experienced throughout his life, from hip hop and soul, to computer games and manga. His works slip between performance and video, reality and construct, using references sampled from the wide, disparate sources that construct and constantly reassemble his sense of self. David Blandy’s films are distributed through LUX. The artist is represented by Seventeen Gallery in London. Blandy’s work has been shown at numerous public institutions including Tate, London, UK; FACT, Liverpool, UK; BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK; INIVA, London, UK; Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany; Spike Island, Bristol, UK; Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK; Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco; Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland; Serpentine Gallery, London, UK; Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Modern Art Oxford, UK; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany; Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK and Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, UK. Blandy lives and works in London.
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Watch an excerpt below
