These movies, which seem to exist in an airless, bodiless universe generated by the technological upheaval, inspire a kind of surreal fascination-by-default.
The Social Lives of Objects at Manchester's Castlefield Gallery brings Seitz together with Hilary Jack and Lisa Penny, who share his fascination with surreal collections and museological displays.
Open Tues-Sat 1pm-6pm In the converted living room of a ground floor house in a typically claustrophobic Amsterdam street, Esther Koch and Hans Bos have taken their fascination for the surreal and avant garde and created a superb showcase for today's top international lowbrow and underground art.
Karen Ka Ying Chan, writer for Dummy, identified the theme of the two releases as Ferraro's "fascination of the surreal side of American living".
It's half interactive art exhibition, half surreal meditation on gaming's fascination with demanding completion of trivial quests to facilitate progression.
Like Sebald himself, his writing, always exquisitely translated, exhibits a bone-dry sense of humour and a fascination with the inconsequential and often surreal mysteries of existence.
And yet, like Archie himself, I have to admit to my own fascination with the good old days — in particular, that spiky, surreal moment when people found television so dangerous that they slapped warning stickers on it.
His work is marked by outrageously surreal jokes, strongly marked spatial gimmicks (repeated movements, fractured framing, duplicate images, that sort of thing) and an animator's fascination for insanely complex design.
