May 8th, 2008
YOU OWN ME NOW UNTIL YOU FORGET ABOUT ME.
Opening reception 15 May 2008, 8 p.m.
Exhibition duration 16 May 2008 - 22 June 2008
Mala galerija—Moderna galerija, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenska cesta 35
Curated by Birgit Rinagl & Franz Thalmair / CONT3XT.NET
www.youownmenow.net
Press release
Performance mit
/ with Valie Djordjevic
In the homonymous performance Marcel Proust’s novel “À la recherche du temps perdu” is first coded into zeros and ones and then decoded back into human language — processed from the analogue to the digital and back again. The zeros and ones are read by two persons alternately, interpreted by a third representing a CPU (Central Processing Unit) and stuck onto the wall panel by a fourth as Display. The performers play computer with the ASCII-version of this originally literary text.
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January 17th, 2008
Opening 17. Januar 2008 at 18.30 h
Kunstbezirk in the Gustav Siegle Haus
Leonhardsplatz 28
Stuttgart – Mitte
January 13th, 2007
talk show is an installation and robot performance
TV talk shows as theatre of the absurd. The term absurd is derived from an essay by the French philosopher Albert Camus. In his ‘Myth of Sisyphus’, written in 1942, he first defined the human situation as basically meaningless and absurd.
3 custom build robot vehicles on a miniature stage will enact a tv talkshow. The vehicles are equiped with a tiny digital radio receiver. which enables them to receive texts in form of audio files broadcasted by an fm transmitter. The texts will be taken from online resources about talk shows and converted to audio files with a text2speech software.
Conversation example: I just don’t know if I can stick around, because I can’t look in her face every day and see that she’s not mine. There were a number of things that began to just not quite ring true & people making comments that she didn’t look like me, whereas my elder daughter did. But you would throw that away if this child’s not yours. Because I’m not going to deal with the pain again. Suspicions confirmed by science. “Why were you calling his cellphone?” “Just to hear his voice.”
In addition to attached digital radios, the vehicles will be equiped with tiny motors to make them move and radio transmitters to allow communication. Every vehicle is steered by a microcontroller. A host controller will distribute instructions for movements and audiofiles.
Tabloid television shows are a part of our pop culture that have been around for a long time. They are an integral part of our culture. It’s always made me curious to figure what the mentality of those individuals who agree to participate in these things is. What prompts them to reveal the ugliest details of their private lives in front of complete strangers? Continue Reading »
October 29th, 2006
TIOTITA reenacts TV shows as an absurd theatre with small robots as actors.
The installation “The improvement of television in the afternoon” poses the question how the re-telling of the stories, which are enacted in the fictional worlds of television, changes our perception of them. The installation attempts a critique of the idealized self-conception of talk shows in the afternoon TV program and in the larger frame analyses instance of the society of the spectacle.
The first part of TIOTITA deals with the genre of court TV, following parts will focus on talk shows.
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October 29th, 2006
dVdFan dekonstruiert das Fersehformat „Gerichtsshow“ durch Überaffirmation. Die gesprochenen Texte der einzelnen Protagonisten – Richter,Staatsanwalt, Verteidiger, Angeklagter und Zeugen – der Gerichtsshows wurden isoliert, transkribiert und im Computer erfasst. Die Stereotypen und Abnormitäten dieser Texte sind die Basis der Dialoge von Richter, Staatsanwalt, Verteidiger, Angeklagter und Zeuge. Eine Text2Speech-Software wandelt diese Dialoge in Sprachdateien und sendet sie an kleine, audiofähige Robotervehikel. Die Vehikel agieren als Schauspieler in einer Art Filmset, einem Diorama aus MDF im Maßstab 1 zu 20. Es besteht im Wesentlichen aus einem Fenster, Tischen, kleinen Büchern und Stiften für Richter, Staatsanwalt und Verteidiger.
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October 29th, 2006
Richter / Judge - Foto: T M Friedrich 2006
Installation - Foto: T M Friedrich 2006
October 15th, 2006
Anthony Elms, editor of White Walls, put together “Interstellar Low Ways“, an exhibition of contemporary practitioners who have been inspired on any level by the music, art, writing and philosophy of Sun Ra.
August 3rd, 2006
Aliens Am Alex
with Darius James (USA/DE) and Peter Dennett, Art Yard (UK)
radio.territories urban intervention at :
TV Tower, Alexanderplatz, Berlin
On Air 95,2 FM or online
http://radioeinszueins.de
30.07.06 16:00 - 18:00
Apocalypso: The Cosmic War Dance of Sun Ra’s Army of Anthropodial Transistors.
When the composer and mystic, Sun Ra, returned to his native Saturn on May 30th, 1993, he left behind him a vast and varied body of recorded musical works. Up until now, much of this music was unreleased and unavailable to the public. But, through a series of séances conducted in the studios of Radio 1:1, with Dr. Snakeskin acting as medium, Mister Re informed us that he will be returning to this planet in his astral form on Sunday, July 30th, 2006. He will not be alone. He is bringing his army of Anthropoidal Transistors.
“We are going to invade Berlin!!!” he chuckled, “Our first target is the TV Tower in Alexanderplatz! My weapons?!! Two full hours of sonic attack — or acoustical magic — taken from a secret library of unreleased recordings. We will dance a cosmic dance. A cosmic WAR dance. It’s the Apocalypso!”liveStream/podcast:
http://radioeinszueins.de/
Host:
http://radia.fm/territories/
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The working environment of the radio vehicles is the urban public space. Radio vehicles is an ephemeral urban intervention aiming to usurp urban space artistically. Twenty vehicles created from simplest and most affordable technical equipment will be let free into the wild. They move about while broadcasting the programme of radio 1:1 which will consist of unpublished Sun Ra material. The swarm moves awkwardly while emitting sound into the public space.
Proudly presented by the bootlab association in cooperation with radio 1:1
as part of the radio.territories series of urban interventions across Europe.
Radio.Territories is supported by the European Union Culture 2000 Programme. |
