Megan Dieudonné & Andrea Rüthel

Safari(Browser)_The_Nature_ofmy_Computer.mov

A curious user drags all the files and folders into the trash and now has a clear view of the landscapes on her desktop. Using pre-installed tools, she speculates on the design, origin and intention of the depicted perspectives and looks for alternatives. An alignment is created between digital and physical space that challenges what is not made visible on the screen.

Megan Dieudonné (b. 1991, Aotearoa New Zealand) works independently and collaboratively on websites, video, screencasts and media installations. She received her Bachelor of Design from the College of Creative Arts in Wellington and after a short stint at the Academy of Fine Arts HGB Leipzig, she joined the Digital Graphics class at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg HFBK, where she recently received a Master of Fine Arts. (https://megandieudonne.com)

Andrea Rüthel (b. 1984, Federal Republic of Germany) works independently and collaboratively on film and video works, screencasts and media installations. She studied Media Sciences, Media Art and Media Design at the Bauhaus University Weimar and the Leipzig University. She was a participant of the Professional Media Master Class for artistic documentary film run by the werkleitz Centre for Media Art in Halle (S.). Based in Leipzig, she is a member of the artist collective FILZ Filmische Initiative Leipzig (https://filz.works) and co-founder of the all-female moving image production company Kante (https://kante.film).