Author and visual artist Amalie Smith
Video piece commissioned by the National Gallery of Denmark (SMK)
HD video 8 min,
looping in the museum cinema from March 16 – September 9 2018.
Enter takes place in a fictional future where the museum collections have been uploaded and lead their own digital lives online. The collection’s figurative paintings have merged, forming a three-dimensional digital architecture inhabited by a group of conscious digital entities – among them a moth that flew into the US military’s Mark II computer in 1947 and since became known as ‘the original computer bug’.
Concept and script: Amalie Smith
Photographer: David Stjernholm
Sound design: Amalie Smith
Music: Sonja LaBianca (saxofon)
3D animation of moth: William Reynish
3D animation of paintings: Amalie Smith
Paintings: The SMK collection
Editing: Amalie Smith
Cast: Jakob Skou-Hansen, Rikke Zinck
Artworks featured in the video, in order of appearance: A scene from Mont Salève, Switzerland, after a wassail by Jens Juel (KKSgb4432), View from the Artist’s Window by Martinus Rørbye (KMS7452), Interior in Strandgade, Sunlight on the Floor by Vilhelm Hammershøi (KMS3696), Autumn Crocus in a Window by Johannes Larsen (KMS3949), A Sculptor (Christen Christensen) in his Studio Working after the Life by Wilhelm Bendz (KMS62), Plucking the Geese by Anna Ancher (KMS1845), Breton Girl Looking After Plants in the Hothouse by Anna Petersen (KMS8289), The Midwife Taking Leave of the girl from Andros. From Terence´s Andria by Nicolai Abildgaard (KMS589), A Group of Danish Artists in Rome by Constantin Hansen (KMS 3236), A Funeral by Frants Henningsen (KMS1218), A Sardinery at Concarneau, Brittany by P.S. Krøyer (KMS3108), A Funeral by Anna Ancher (KMS1433), The Garden Steps Leading to the Artist's Studio on Blegdammen, Copenhagen by Christen Købke (KMS6605), Family Portrait by Emil Bærentzen (KMS8588) and The Iron Foundry, Burmeister and Wain by P.S. Krøyer (KMS3605).