TONY MASLIĆ
Cluster Exhibitor | Cluster Contemporary | 2022
Tony Maslić is a Postmedia artist who explored a plenitude of media, executed in cross-disciplinary installations, video, 3D animations, robotics, sound-art, conceptual works, performances, and much more. He has showed his work in group shows and solos around the world. His topics varied from politics, economics, psychology, war & conflict, cultural displacement, violence, propaganda, group-behavior, cultural identity, and the impact of capitalism.
Nerve Loop 01 | 2021
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Simultaneously he explores the dichotomous interrelationships between a virtual existence and physical objects within the construction of reality. Currently he focuses on the possibility and probability of computational or artificial consciousness. Could this be explored through art? Or even worse, does it really exist, or is it just a figment of our imagination and in reality, we might just be organic automata coded to think we are independent thinking and emotional individuals. These are the questions he explores in his current study at the School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong and the work in this show is an experiment to investigate this.
“I am infinitely curious about the human condition, about culture, about our differences, our opinions, and ultimately our mind. How society is evolving, how politics are working, why wars are battled, about sexuality, about the body, but also about genders, and group dynamics and nationalism. What makes something funny and why humor is culturally different?”
Tony Maslić | Portrait
Nerve Loop 03 | 2021
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“Most important in my opinion is the questions we ask. Good questions are difficult to define and often more important than the answers. Who are we, what are we, and where are we going and why? This ancient cliché question had many different answers which all fell from grace in time, but the question still stands strong. All this is happening inside our brains. How? The fascination with the mind is something that I had since my infancy. Consciousness is something so intangible but ubiquitous, and still we have not found a plausible answer of what it is or even if it exists. My quest is to further research this phenomenon, to ask new questions, and to explore this through Postmedia art.”
Nerve Loop 06 | 2021