Is there a culture to online art viewing and the online dissemination of art? Can materiality become outdated? How does interfaces dictate content? Does digitally disseminated art challenge power hierarchies? Are there other power structures in play? How, why and for how long are we paying attention?

These were some of the things artists participating in the Interface Exhibition where prompted to contemplate when invited to propose works.  The selected artworks represent specific points of departure when considering the ‘Interface’ and its implications. These include deliberations on new interfacing socialities; longing, loneliness, connection, digital dependency, workday conditions; artworks that delve into the exchange between tangible objects and the ephemeral nature of their digital counterparts; then there are artworks that embrace the uncompoundable potentiality of virtual space to shirk dominant narratives and power hierarchies.

These points of departure are by no means exhaustive and conversations with artists on the subject and the translation of work to virtual spaces yielded many more avenues for exploration.  Even the attempt to replicate a gallery experience for online viewers only highlighted what remains unreachable through a screen, which is in turn contradicted by artworks that will be completely invincible in the physical space, only accessible through portals on handheld devices.

The online iteration of Interface Exhibition invites viewers to scroll through a selected number of contemplations on our rapidly ‘inter’-changing states of being.