Carl Henry Ek: Cloud-Based Default Network - Smålands Konstarkiv

Since video conferencing became public domain, the perception of what constitutes a room has changed. Imagine a meeting with a group of people in a room participating in a video conference. The meeting takes place physically and on each participant’s computer. Spatiality has thus both expanded and collapsed. It has become something much more comprehensive and has a worldwide reach. At the same time, it is something small that fits inside a micro component in a laptop. The space that can be interpreted as a room is really just binary numbers. What defines the new spatiality? And what is there after the call ends?

Carl Henry Ek was born in 1992 in Korsberga outside Vetlanda. Lives and works as an artist in Stockholm. He graduated from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm in 2023. He has also studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and the Valand Academy of Fine Arts in Gothenburg.