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ARTIFACTS & ARTLOVERS - The intimate moment of approaching and exploring art Can digital algorithms create art? I’m fascinated by art and was writing about artists and exhibitions for newspapers even before I started my own professional photographic career. Never before has there been so much hype about creativity and art. Fairs and exhibitions with big names attract masses of visitors and every year, new reports about record sales are making their rounds. For a few a good business, for others a welcome change, art is for many an important life content. Art fascinates, moves and inspires, can ask important questions and outline answers. The present artwork is part of a series and the result of more than six years work. First published in 2019 as a limited edition portfolio (100/100) part of this work has been shown in a gallery exhibition during fall 2019. Whilst my general photographic works are mainly realized in classic black and white and mostly on film, I have chosen a different approach for this series. In order to question the artistic creation itself, I used a simple digital point-and-shoot camera and its „creative" filter-effects, letting its algorithms alienate the images instantly at the time of recording. Taken during museum shows or international art fairs, often without any visual control through the LCD, the „watercolor“ effect of the photographs helps to concentrate on the attitude of the visitors approaching art works - without violating their personal integrity - as they are not really recognizable. Romano P. Riedo has been dealing with the subject for a long time. Not just as a journalist and an exhibition curator himself, but also in different ways photographically.