[spectre] ZKM/Live Projection Performance

[Andrea Buddensieg]

ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe
ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
2003-03-26


Live Projection Performances

At the last weekend of the exhitition FUTURE CINEMA the ZKM presents two
Live Projection Performacnes

P e r r y  H o b e r m a n: Let’s Make a Monster (2001) 
Live Projection Performance 

Sat-Sun March 29-30, 2003
ZKM Media Theater, 3 p.m. on both days, entrance free

L e t’ s  M a k e  a  M o n s t e r  is partly cinematographic
archaeology, a collage of parables, ironic stories and "fan cut". In his
performance, Hoberman uses excerpts from countless sci-fi classics that
deal with the creation of artificial life. Like an electronic alchemist,
mad scientist, or Wizard of Oz he conducts these images in front of a
collection of cameras, laptops and other instruments. Hoberman’s story
contrasts the mad fantasies of a Dr. Frankenstein with the prophecies of
the countless contemporary experts on artificial life and intelligence,
and demonstrates in an ironic manner that there are indeed parallels.
Frankenstein meets Brave New World, Golem meets Bladerunner, Coma meets
The Invisible Man.



J u l i e n  M a i r e: Demi-Pas, 20 mins
Projection Performance 

Sat.-Sun. March 29-30, 2003
ZKM Media Theater, 5 p.m. on both days, entrance free

D e m i – P a s  is a short film and is projected using a 'reversed
camera' technique. A projector has been converted to house
micro-mechanisms that produce animated images using a principle similar
to that of cinematography. "Demi-Pas" thus finds its own narrative
methods, its own action and images, like a kind of projected theater.
Real objects and photographic material are transposed within the
projector. Based on this experimental form of projection, the film
narrates a tale that has an extremely simple storyline: one man's daily
routine. "Demi-Pas" is a short film that constructs an everyday reality,
thus highlighting simultaneously both the simplicity and the complexity
of this reality.


-- 
Dr. Andrea Buddensieg

Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Leitung
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