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DIGITAL TRANSPOSITIONS 4
21 May – 2 June 2013
This year's exhibition Digital Transfers
is special, as it is already the fourth presentation of
new media projects of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design
from Ljubljana. In the past three years, thirty inter-media
projects have resulted from the collaborative efforts of
thirty-one students and sixty-six external collaborators –
programmers from the Faculty of Computer and Information
Science (FCIS) of the University of Ljubljana and its
Computer Vision Laboratory.
Through all these years, we have developed and invented new
models of production and networking, while planning new
presentation strategies and transferring projects from
laboratories to galleries and other public venues in
Ljubljana. In order to ensure the continuous presentation of
research projects that require a high level of expertise, we
established a link with the Faculty of Electrical
Engineering and its Laboratory for Robotics. We organised an
interdisciplinary seminar/workshop, where both artistic
concept and scientific methods were presented. Altogether,
seven robotics projects were completed.
This is an exceptional project, which opens up the paradigm
of interdisciplinary study, in our case combining media arts
and science. The exhibition DIGITAL TRANSFERS 4 in Škuc
Gallery will present only three projects, while all of them
will be presented under the title ARTROBOLAB in KSEVT- the
Cultural Centre of European Space Technologies in Vitanje
this autumn. There, we wish to present a research module
which synthesises different educational, research and
artistic concepts. In addition to eight students from the
Faculty of Arts and Design, nineteen students from the
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, nineteen mentors from
this faculty, the Faculty of Computer and Information
Science, the Jožef Stefan Institute, URI in ABB.
This year’s selection should be seen as oriented towards the
future, when no one will ask certain projects are more
artistic than scientific. We have begun to open an
intermediate space for dialogue to ask questions about the
essence of the scientific in art and the artistic in
science.
KRISTJAN DOLENC, DAVID PIRNAT, MAŠA ŽELJKO: “Emotions
I,II,III”
A group interactive video installation that
provides a reference framework where the viewer is in an
identification field with some basic emotions, which is
constantly involved in a network of communication channels
of changing feelings as a non-material entity and a
performance in the presence of potential time.
KLARA KOTNIK: “Free speech area”
An interactive installation in the gallery
and in a public outdoor space. The participant is connected
to the new media communication of “being-in-the-world” and
implies interest and active participation in current
protests.
ERIKA PAVLIN:
“From Illustration to Interactive Installation”
The smart table is based on educational
content which enables young visitors to assemble puzzles via
an interactive screen. The image is composed through
inter-subjectivity as a meeting point between the observer
and the image. The programme will be accessible to the
public and can also be used for special needs students.
INGRID ROZMAN: “Music Mill”
A new media robotic object intended to
transfer a scientific paradigm into ethical and aesthetic
fields, thereby creating three ecologies: environmental,
social and mental. Dali’s painting “The Burning Giraffe” is
recycled as disused PC components, which are re-programmed
to create a melody.
DAVID WRATNY: “Looking through a double
mirror”
An interactive new media installation where
the viewer is digitalised and placed in the space of a
traditional painting. Everything is governed by real time.
The interactive interfaces are here to finish the work
alone, While drawing attention to, and questioning, the
issue of the real and imaginary.
DAVID WRATNY:
“The Streets of Piran”
In this interactive spatial installation,
visitors enter views of the town via a cursor connected to
‘kinect’ motion sensor. The project can be experienced both
as an interactive video project and as a current signifier
producing subjectivity.
MONIKA ZABRET: “Chinese Zodiac”
The drawing is constituted as a metaphor for
reshaped representations, which enable the recipient to see
universal verbal images – an algorhythm as visual poetry
generated by the programme.
TJAŠA ZMRZLAK: “Bellboy of Concurrence”
Interaction between a robot-fellow traveller
and human visitor. In a techno-performance, the robot
develops a musical instrument from its software, using
glasses with varying volumes of liquid, where tones are
played differently each time at different height as a
coincidence matrix.
The complex laboratory experiment is
transferred to a gallery.
Head
of the Department for Video and New Media
Prof. Srečo Dragan
Students of the Academy of
Fine Arts and Design - ALUO (Department of video and new
media):
Kristjan Dolenc, Klara Kotnik,Erika
Paulin, David Pirnat, Ingrid Rozman,David Wratny, Monika
Zabret, Tjaša Zmrzlak, Maša Željko
Students of the Faculty of
Computer and Information Science - FRI (Computer Vision
Laboratory):
Blaž Bahar, Janes Bindas, Žiga Elsner,
Vesna Glavač, Tadej Jagodnik, Gregor Majcen, Dominik
Pangeršič, Domen Petrič, Erik Plestenjak, Gregor Potočnik,
Matej Rojko
Students of the Faculty of
Electrical Engineering - FE (Laboratory for Robotics):
Nino Hribar, Andrej Juvan, Luka Kepic,
Grega Logar, Luka Mrljak, Tomaž Pekljaj
Lecturers:
FRI: Franc Solina
FE: Tadej Bajd, Jadran Lenarčič, Matjaž Mihelj
ALUO: Srečo Dragan
Mentors:
FE: Janez Podobnik, Jaka Ziherl
FRI: Aleš Jaklič, Borut Batagelj, Bojan Klemenc, Robert
Ravnik
IJS: Bojan Nemec, Luka Peternel, Fares Abu-Dakka
ABB: Robert Logar
URI: Matjaž Zadravec
The exhibition is a
cooperation of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Faculty
of Computer and Information Sciences and Faculty of
Electrical Engineering of the University of Ljubljana.
 
The exhibition is supported by
ABB Slovenia, Jožef Štefan Institute and the University
Rehabilitation Institute Soča
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