Dekkenga’s current series of digital paintings began as an inquiry into whether sketches developed for paintings could function as screensavers, and has since evolved into an investigation of form, color, temporality, and the ways medium-specific conditions shape perception. Paintings and screensavers share a domestic function in that both activate an existing site, yet the screensaver exists as a portable digital file rather than a singular object fixed in place and time. Its construction parallels painting as a sequence of contingent formal decisions while also drawing on musical practices of variation, repetition, and remix. Through the recombination of existing structures and gradual shifts in color and form, time becomes a compositional material, translating painterly decision-making into a digital context and repositioning the screen as a temporal and pictorial space rather than a purely functional interface.

Screensaver 005

11-01-25

16 bit video games / Hitoshi Kawano

A 4k digital remix inspired by early computer artists affiliated with New Tendencies and Bit International combined with early 16 bit video games.

Screensaver 004

06-01-25

16 bit video games/Hitoshi Kawano/Ryszard Winiarski

A 4k digital remix inspired by early computer artists affiliated with New Tendencies and Bit International combined with early 16 bit video games.

Screensaver 003

05-01-24

Anni Albers/Minecraft Textures.

A 4k digital screensaver inspired by Anni Albers and Minecraft texture blocks.

Screensaver 002

03-01-24

Johannes Itten, Four Seasons.

A 4K loop of the color theorist Johannes Itten’s four seasons.

Screensaver 001

01-01-24

New Tendencies/Bit International

A 4k digital remix inspired by early computer artists affiliated with New Tendencies and Bit International. Hitoshi Kawano, Jennifer Bartlett, Louisiana Bendolph, Julije Knifer, Ryszard Winiarski, Jean Claude Marquette, Karl Gerstner.

Kamen

07-01-22

First screensaver experiments

A screensaver made at Kamen Artist Residency in Bosnia during a 2022 residency inspired by Bosnian Textiles.

TSA 1

04-30-17

Screensaver

Screensaver made for exhibition at Tiger Strikes Asteroid in Brooklyn. 

TSA 2

04-30-17

Screensaver

Screensaver made for exhibition at Tiger Strikes Asteroid in Brooklyn. 

TSA 3

04-30-17

Screensaver

Screensaver made for exhibition at Tiger Strikes Asteroid in Brooklyn. 

Firestation

07-15-17

Screensaver

Screensaver made for exhibition at Doha Firestation Gallery in Qatar. 

We have never been modern

06-10-14

Screensaver

Screensaver made for exhibition at Mass Art Gallery in Austin Texas. 

Still life

04-01-13

Screensaver

Screensaver made for exhibition at Eli Ping Gallery in NYC.

Diptych

06-01-13

Screensaver

Screensaver made for digital exhibition curated by Suzanne Geiss Gallery in NYC. 

Cube

06-01-13

Screensaver

Screensaver made for digital exhibition curated by Suzanne Geiss Gallery in NYC. 

No title

06-01-11

First screensaver experiments

Early screensaver experiment.

No title

06-01-11

First screensaver experiments

Early screensaver experiment.

Screensaver 1/4

04-01-09

First screensaver experiments

Early screensaver exhibited at Coe College in Cedar Rapids Iowa, 2009.

Screensaver 2/4

04-01-09

First screensaver experiments

Early screensaver exhibited at Coe College in Cedar Rapids Iowa, 2009.

Screensaver 3/4

04-01-09

First screensaver experiments

Early screensaver exhibited at Coe College in Cedar Rapids Iowa, 2009.

Screensaver 4/4

04-01-09

First screensaver experiments

Early screensaver exhibited at Coe College in Cedar Rapids Iowa, 2009.

Mariah Dekkenga

Mariah Dekkenga