Philipp Pest - Nethernet Event

The concurrent presence of everything created, so the medieval theologians have taught, is HELL.
Under these auspices, the Internet can be understood as a place of world blockage, a grand error, as a digital hell.
The world wide web does not forget.
The whole Dantesque infernal terrain opens, only that on the web even the infernal circles, as a figure of order, are abolished.

In addition to these thoughts, I create virtual reenactments of infernal landscapes.
Areas are photographed in their entirety, meter by meter, and rearranged in a virtual 3D-Model.
The resulting scenarios, made out of the original 3D-Scans, photographies and also found footage from the Web, are then filmed or photographed with a virtual camera within the 3D-simulation and subsequently completed with digitally drawn intervening elements.
In my works, I often integrate alienated ironic self-portraits as an omniscient figure who guides the viewer through the digital hell.
Furthermore, my works aim to generate depoliticized substitute worlds which are detached from respective relations of life and power of the visualized scene.
The ductus of landscape as a construct of politically shaped and subjective perception transforms into a virtual simulation of a landscape, while presentation mechanisms of reality and its manifestations lead to the creation of surrogates.