BFA Project of Mikael Konttinen
May 2006 @ Bergen Academy of Fine Art / Kunsthogskolan i Bergen, avd. Kunstakademien
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Title(s):
The right here, the right now
The same same but different
The three sentence epic
The concluding speculation
The post-post review
The cracked wide open
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Material(s):
Layer 3: The Generative
Processing, Pure Data, Buzz
Layer 2: The Referential
"Aasgaardsreien " (1872) by Peter Nicolai Arbo
"Bonanza" theme song by Jay Livingston and Ray Evans
Layer 1: The Installation
Retro-trash sound-system,
disembodied PC, 8" LCD
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Artist statement:
This real time generative installation
contains several simultaneous referential and contemplative layers.
It is an attempt to multiplex several threads of speculation into a
single installation piece where the reading is to be done by the
relations between the physical and referential material used and in
conjunction with the ongoing generative. Please choose the mindset
you find most appropriate for interpretation.
Technical:
The sound and visuals are interacting
in both directions. The audio is a real time transmutation of the
Bonanza theme song, the television series from the 1960's about the
Cartwright brothers and their adventures in the wild west. The
generative visuals are in parted in two, where the underlying canvas
layer contains a rhythmic visual response to the stuttering sound
track. On top there is an computerized attempt of drawing similar to
human doodling. At first the software focuses on a part of the source
painting, tries to sketch the outlines of the scene and after that
turn into attempts of filling in details. Though it manages to
outline recognizable details of the source, it never reaches a fully
realistic depiction. The visual source material is derived from the
national romantic painting of vikings and valkyrias riding across the
sky by Peter Nicolai Arbo.
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