[spectre] Media-Scape 2006, Novigrad-Cittanova, Croatia

[Daxl_Fuelepp]

Media-Scape 2006

Rigo Gallery www.galerija-rigo.hr
Novigrad-Cittanova, Hrvatska / Croatia
29. August - 3. September 2006

Symposium, Workshops, Presentations, Screenings


"per (mutations)"

The present-day digital era created the technical preconditions for 
the conception, editing, archiving and the output of hitherto 
separate areas of artistic production on the basis of a common code. 
Artistic goals are always positioned at the limits of available 
technologies. The boundaries of the possible have grown significantly 
wider, placing the longing for the Gesamtkunstwerk, the total work of 
art, into focus again. On the other hand, the perils of arbitrariness 
are lurking, of linking of everything with everything else, of the 
"white noise", the senselessness of the information overflow. But 
also new ways of discourse, of work and interaction, already 
announced years ago by the media enthusiasts, appear at the horizon. 
Crossover art forms are emerging.
Secret channels have always existed between the spheres of visual 
art, technical innovations and experimental music. Though the forms 
of expression seem to differ at first sight, they represent 
variations of the reflection on one and the same reality. 
Synaesthesiae, relations between the media, have always interested 
scientists and artists, and numerous attempts were undertaken in the 
early years of the past century to couple various media - like at the 
Bauhaus stage. Movements in the visual arts, such as the Fluxus, the 
happening and the expanded cinema in the sixties, experimented with 
new approaches. Combinations of images and music have become very 
popular at the latest with the appearance of music videos at the 
beginning of the eighties - putting the question of their meaning 
aside for the moment. History does not pass us without leaving a 
trace: "all that emerges (is) a part of the social process of life, 
the consequence of certain facts, which then influences the emerging 
intentions. Based on the emerging, an ideology is created, a certain 
way of looking at things, an interpretation and a relation which in 
turn influence the emerging" (Laszlo Moholy-Nagy).
Parallel views were expressed also in the field of music. As Arnold 
Schönberg put it in a letter to his publisher Hertzka concerning the 
planned filming of his musical drama The Lucky Hand: "Just as music 
never drags a meaning around with it, at least not in the form in 
which it manifests itself, even though meaning is inherent to its 
essence, so too this should simply be like sounds for the eye, and as 
far as I am concerned everyone should think or feel something similar 
to what he thinks or feels while hearing music."
The turbulences created since the dynamisation of music 100 years ago 
still resonate today. It will be interesting to observe how the 
images and the sounds of the future will slowly turn from a closed 
unity to modular parameters, which the viewer/user may manage and 
freely manipulate. In the future audiovisual data will certainly not 
contain and transfer the entire information but only its definitions, 
vectors and coordinates, which will again be converted to images and 
sounds with the help of a processor. But hold on! Does this not sound 
as a comprehensive notation for some future optophonetics? (Heiko 
Daxl / Ingeborg Fülepp)

ORGANIZATION: Jerica Ziherl, Galerija RIGO Novigrad / Citta Nova 
(HR), Prof. Dr. Nik{a Gligo, University of Zagreb, Music Academy 
(HR), Ingeborg Fülepp /  Heiko Daxl (HR/D)

PARTICIPANTS: \anino Boæi} (HR), Tomislav Brajnovi} (HR), Noam 
Braslavsky (D/IZ), Heiko Daxl (D), Matija Debeljuh (HR), Sr|an 
Dedi}(HR), Frano \urovi} (HR), Maurizio Ferlin (HR), Alen Flori~i} 
(HR), Ingeborg Fülepp (HR/D), Nik{a Gligo (HR), Stanko Jusba{i}(HR), 
Marko Ko{nik (SLO), Dubravko Kuhta (HR), Andreja Kulun|i}(HR), Rolf 
Külz-Mackenzie (D), Walter Lenertz (D), Antal Lux (D/H), Mona Mur 
(D), Kre{imir Selektovi}(HR), Jan-Peter E.R. Sonntag (D)


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