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if you see something

admin — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 00:02:55 +0000

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IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING, goes the MTA (NY public transport authority) imperative. A simple directive with a simple grammar that separates three simple steps in recognition and response.
First you there is the visual perception. The photons carrying visual information enter your eye and in the retina get converted to neuron signals which pass into your brain. A package in brown paper is given as an example. Second, the silently presupposed step: you line up the perception in your brain against cognitive patterns, a grid of memories, experiences and possible scenarios. The one you are expected to employ in this context is the one of fear of unexpected terrorist attrocity. Third, you are instructed to take action by forming apropriate language descrition of your perception and bundle it together with your suspicions and hand it over to a person with a mandate to deal with the problem. Language is the recommended tool here for grasping the reality, a supposedly safe tool to handle potentially expolsive reality. There are experts for safe handling the physical reality, who should take appropriate actions.
Taking things out of context has been one of the most favorite strategies of visual artists. Once a thing is taken out of its original context it starts to gravitate towards multitude of meanings. It becomes a loose object that one can align against a whole number of grids within one’s own experience. My favorite language for handling found objects is video. Fragments of reality are taken and tested for their potential to enter various contexts. This is where the subject enters: the word video comes from Latin and literally translates as “I see”. What we can draw out of that definition is that video is a very personal perception. There is the “I” – the subject. My strategy in working with video is comparable to Barthes’ search for “punctum” in photography. I select things that for me seem to have that “punctum”, a point of triggering a thought process, a process of aligning the perception to multiple cognitive grids.
The activitiy of associating is an important ingredient in games for its potetntial to undermine rigid meanings of things, objects, words, thoughts. It is a playful and cheerful destruction with a potential to rejuvenate our view of the world around us. I offer several moving images for your scrutiny found in the world that for you is the daily life. Is there a trigger? Is there anything explosive in there? Is there a potential for some free associations? Let me propose another scenario, possibly a more positive one: IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY ANYTHING.

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noise

admin — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:18:12 +0000

festival at nod, prague, 27 / 10 – 02 / 11 / 2008

lorem ipsum II.

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videoinstallation (3 tv sets, camera, rubberbands)

jindřich chalupecký award – final 2008

admin — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:30:02 +0000

these
social situation: five men tied-up

The scene was shaped through consensual discussion between the author, the two bondage experts and the tied persons. All participate voluntarily, at their own risk, for their own experience and without any financial reward.

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the other
social situation: daniel.heart12

daniel.heart12, 21 years, Philippines
Studies school of commerce. To finance his studies and help his family he makes money on erotic webcam chats. From the end of August until the beginning of exhibition he has received from my grant money financial aid of 500 US dollars to pay his tuition fees and buy his own computer with internet connection. For his presence in the gallery for the duration of the exhibition he is offered further 300 US dollars. I have asked him to be online at least two hours daily.

ADD soundsystem 2.3 coming up

admin — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:24:49 +0000

See more at ADDsoundsystem website.

lorem ipsum I.

admin — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:26 +0000

dům umění v opavě
curated by blanka švédová
opening 08 / 07 / 2008
running 09 / 07 – 10 / 08 / 2008

lorem ipsum 01 (tv set feedback)

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lorem ipsum 02 (hanging camera feedback)

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lorem ipsum 03 (baudrillard on random)

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press release:

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…roses for audrey horne…

admin — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:07:22 +0000

stredoslovenská galéria, vila dominika skuteckého, room 19_21
curated by zuzana l. majlingová
opening 26 / 06 / 2008
running 27 / 06 – 27 / 07 / 2008

audrey horne at one-eyed jack’s

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excerpt from the twin peaks series used in the installation

ideal lover

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camera 7

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roses (by night)

admin — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:10:56 +0000

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banská bystrica 25 / 06 / 2008

matmos

admin — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:24:50 +0000

with martin c. schmidt at archa theatre in prague, after matmos gig.
wow.
one of the best live shows i’ve ever seen.

intro 518 teď 69 teď* teď 180 bonus q track!

admin — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:00:02 +0000

karlin studios, 05 / 06 – 29 / 06 / 2008
selected and assembled by david böhm, jiří franta, marek meduna
text by david böhm, jiří franta, marek meduna, czech lanuguage, rtf format

two videos for depeche mode
video installation

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ADD soundsystem – a month of sonic mayham

admin — Sat, 31 May 2008 23:11:11 +0000

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ADD soundsystem – school workshop

admin — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:00:55 +0000

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a morning spent with ugly little pubertal monsters with attention deficit disorder

ADD soundsystem presents Dead Pigeon + X’91

admin — Mon, 19 May 2008 01:00:16 +0000

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if you see something

noise

lorem ipsum II.

videoinstallation (3 tv sets, camera, rubberbands)

jindřich chalupecký award – final 2008

thesesocial situation: five men tied-up

the othersocial situation: daniel.heart12

ADD soundsystem 2.3 coming up

lorem ipsum I.

lorem ipsum 01 (tv set feedback)

lorem ipsum 02 (hanging camera feedback)

lorem ipsum 03 (baudrillard on random)

press release:

…roses for audrey horne…

audrey horne at one-eyed jack’s

excerpt from the twin peaks series used in the installation

ideal lover

camera 7

roses (by night)

banská bystrica 25 / 06 / 2008

matmos

intro 518 teď 69 teď* teď 180 bonus q track!

two videos for depeche modevideo installation

ADD soundsystem – a month of sonic mayham

ADD soundsystem – school workshop

ADD soundsystem presents Dead Pigeon + X’91

ADD soundsystem presents Michal Mariánek

ADD soundsystem presents Martin Janíček

ADD soundsystem presents Mindbeam Music

ADD soundsystem presents eriXikora & 2046

add soundsystem: radio 1 interview

ADD soundsystem presents Darina Alster

add radio ad

ADD soundsystem – testing, tomáš vaněk

ADD soundsystem presents Antena

add soundsystem opening

add soundsystem – day before the opening

ADD soundsystem – installation day 1

audible image

enough

klárčino mýdlo

recipe (simple cake)

faces of 1984

meeting momus

contemporary czech cubism

paranoia on the rocks / paris gets fukd

videografie (sediment)

rosa lupina

requested hiccups

PF 2008 – pump up the volume!

untitled (boat/eye)

skáče jak píská

meds

luggage

new dress

el jardín (café, cocktail)

el jardín de las delicias

gallery behaviour

videomix – kaleidoskop

late afternoon swatch

artículos religiosos

equal opportunities

unsafe distance

23 seconds

escalator again

one centimeter squared

media artist

rhythm 1

dialogue

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pictures of a utopia

escalators

self portrait in a pale blue space

czechpoint

avu 18

fractal zoom (liberty st.)

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koncovka

simple living

these
social situation: five men tied-up

the other
social situation: daniel.heart12

two videos for depeche mode
video installation