Ville Färsaaret (b.1986, Lappeenranta) is a self-taught visual artist living in Tampere, Finland, with a background in graffiti and street art. In recent years he has focused on his childhood game console, the Sega Mega Drive, and has developed his artistic work around the Art Alive! animation program released for it in 1991 – possibly the only one of its kind in the world. The limitations of a rudimentary image editing program give creative work a whole new outlet, and the result is often in line with it.
For the festival, Färsaaret will work with Sega to create site-specific digital graphics to be installed on light boards. The works present details from the street near the exhibition site.
Curators’ comments: “The Sega Mega Drive as an artist’s tool is as outsider as it gets! The exceptional nature of the process of creating a work and the way it highlights the local environmenr adds an interesting dimension to the finished work. We look forward to seeing what comes of this.”
