Opening: 6 May, 17.00 - 19.30 hrs

Upstream Gallery is proud to present the third solo exhibition of Jan Robert Leegte (1973, NL) with the gallery: No Content - Contemplations on Software.

In 1964 Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase “The Medium is the Message”, in which he sought to point out that not the content of media defined the big changes in society, but the character of the medium itself. An insight that seems actual more than ever, where consensus reality and the democracies of the world are eroding by the mere presence and dominance of social media.

This overlooking the medium blinded by the haze of content can also be said of the experience we have on a personal scale when interacting with media and specifically with software of the networked computer. So distracted by the content we are nearly always oblivious to the carrier and reality that holds it. This exhibition can be seen as a protest against the endless waves of content that suffocate us personally and as society, but above everything else, it should be seen as a contemplation on software.