The End (Death in Seven Colours)

THE END: DEATH IN SEVEN COLOURS

ABOUT

The End: Death in Seven Colours is a non-linear internet artwork by David Clark originally developed in the interactive authoring environment Korsakow in 2015. This remake of the project was done in 2023.

The piece looks at the deaths of seven historic figures examined through the prism of a vast, encyclopedic mash-up of internet and media sources. The work presents an ‘exploded view’ diagram of our culture’s relationship to death and narrative closure. Like a chose-your-own-adventure conspiracy theory, The End weaves together a paranoid meta-text organized around themes of concealment, secrecy, the unknown, and the shifting boundary between animal, man and computer in the post-human era.

The deaths of Alan Turing, Sigmund Freud, Princess Diana, Jim Morrison, Judy Garland, Walter Benjamin, and Marcel Duchamp are the touchstones for many impractical segues and short circuits . This is a work of uncanny scholarship as the familiar and unfamiliar rub up against each other, like balloons filled with continental theory and psychoanalysis rubbed against your hair and then placed on a wall where they stay held up by static electricity and magical thinking.

David Clark

THE END: DEATH IN SEVEN COLOURS

CREDITS

Written & Produced

David Clark

Edited &Sound Desgn

David Clark

Code

Felix Bernier

Additional Music

Jeff Toyne

Research

Magnus von Tiesenhausen

Sebastian Harder

Jameel Patel

Produced during residencies at:

ZK/U, Berlin

The Banff Centre Literary Arts Program

Produced with the assistance of:

The Canada Council for the Arts Media Arts

Arts Nova Scotia

THE END: DEATH IN SEVEN COLOURS

David Clark

David Clark is an award-winning artist, filmmaker, digital explorer, radio producer, and writer. He is also a connoisseur of the intangible connection. His internet artworks 88 Constellations for Wittgenstein and A is for Apple are dream-like interactive essays that weave together stories, ideas, and wild digressions to produce a kind of literary vertigo as he tackles questions about how we make meaning of our world through philosophical, logical, poetic, visual, accidental, and emotional means. He is currently an MFA Candidate in the Creative NonFiction Program at King's College in Halifax.

Website: www.chemicalpictures.net
email: dclark@nscad.ca

MESSAGES FROM THE UNSEEN WORLD

FREUD'S CIGAR

THE PALACE AT 4 A.M.

FREUD'S CIGAR

BEAUTIFUL FRIEND

THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN

THE ANGEL OF HISTORY

OPPOSITION AND SISTER SQUARES ARE RECONCILED

MESSAGES FROM THE UNSEEN WORLD

FREUD'S CIGAR

THE PALACE AT 4 A.M.

BEAUTIFUL FRIEND

MESSAGES FROM THE UNSEEN WORLD

THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN

THE ANGEL OF HISTORY

OPPOSITION AND SISTER SQUARES ARE RECONCILED