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Trautwein Herleth is pleased to present an exhibition of the four-video suite Parallele I–V by Harun Farocki, the final work completed by the pioneering artist before his death in 2014. This exhibition marks the first time in over a decade that the four-video cycle is shown in Berlin.
Farocki finished the first installment of Parallele in 2012. The double channel video charts the development of computer generated imagery from its inception to the present, while simultaneously unraveling outmoded narratives around representation in general. Early computer images, limited by technology, rely on symbolic forms of depiction, while present day output trends towards a concretism of ever increasing fidelity to an idea of reality. Speculating on this further, Farocki considers whether digital images will eventually displace filmic images – marking a displacement of the indexical by the man-made idealization.
Parallele II and III expose the frameworks of game worlds, testing their inherent…
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Trautwein Herleth is pleased to present an exhibition of the four-video suite Parallele I–V by Harun Farocki, the final work completed by the pioneering artist before his death in 2014. This exhibition marks the first time in over a decade that the four-video cycle is shown in Berlin.
Farocki finished the first installment of Parallele in 2012. The double channel video charts the development of computer generated imagery from its inception to the present, while simultaneously unraveling outmoded narratives around representation in general. Early computer images, limited by technology, rely on symbolic forms of depiction, while present day output trends towards a concretism of ever increasing fidelity to an idea of reality. Speculating on this further, Farocki considers whether digital images will eventually displace filmic images – marking a displacement of the indexical by the man-made idealization.
Parallele II and III expose the frameworks of game worlds, testing their inherent…

































