Sebastian Schmeig, *Nice (LFMN) – Edinburgh (EGPH),* video recording, 180’, 2015

ON SCHMEIG’S LONG STANDING FASCINATION FOR THE ART OF VIRTUAL FLYING…

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Lights will guide you home is an iteration of an ongoing project by Sebastian Schmieg originally presented at panke.gallery in January 2022, Lights will guide you home (take off) and at /rosa Lights will guide you home(landing) both in Berlin, the latter being a new project space jointly run by panke.gallery and Zentrum für Netzkunst (ZfN) focusing on researching and exhibiting net art and net culture. Lights will guide you home was originally conceived as a multi-channel installation, and was subsequently edited as a single-channel video recording for VRAL where it can be watched until July 7.

However, Schmieg’s fascination for flight simulators is far from recent. In fact, it goes back to at least 2015, when he produced Nice (LFMN) – Edinburgh (EGPH), a three hour long screen recording of a virtual flight by a gamer streaming on Amazon’s platform, Twitch.tv. The project was originally created for a group exhibition entitled Wasting time on the Internet 2.0, curated by Thomas Spallek, Laura Catania, and Yvonique Wellen at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf.

Nice (LFMN) – Edinburgh (EGPH) is an appropriation and re-contextualization of a ludic performance by a player with a small, almost negligible following…

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