[spectre] Exhibition . Darko Fritz . XXX [body . technology . desire . porno] : moving images

[Darko Fritz]

Exhibition

XXX [body . technology . desire . porno] : moving images
by Darko Fritz

VN Gallery . Zagreb . Croatia
23 - 25 . 11 . 2006 . opening . 23rd Nov 20 h

exhibited works:
Darko Fritz . XXX [body . technology . desire . porno] . documentary . 
first showing!
Cryped TV porn [analogue]
Cryped TV porn [digital]
The Birth of an Unborn Nation


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Darko Fritz . XXX [body . technology . desire . porno]

project in progres
by Darko Fritz
since 1997
 

Internet Porno / Internet Porno Weekends
digital prints on canvas

Images taken from the commercial porno sites are digitally manipulated 
and then printed on canvas. The first several works in this series 
censor the uncensored portion of the image thus inverting the 
methodology of censorship applied to each two-dimensional image.

Cryped TV porn [analogue] stills
digital prints / temporary installation at public space . Artwalk . 
Amsterdam

This series consists of digital prints of the TV-stills taken from 
scrambled television signals. TV broadcasters encrypt the video signal 
for those who don't pay subscription fees. Nevertheless, such signals 
are present in both the air and on cable TV. In particular, TV 
programmes with hard-core porno films was recorded in its scrambled 
state.

Cryped TV porn [analogue]
video

A one hour video was made by capturing such a signal in one take. The 
only editing technique used was freezing the TV image on-the-fly while 
recording it, in order to reveal video stills. As video signal is out – 
of – synch, even these stills are not quite still. The rest of the 
image processing just happened by itself by capturing the unsyncronised 
video signal.

Cryped TV porn [digital]
3 [and 5] channal video installation

During the transfer of analogue to digital video signal, a new quality 
of image is achieved. Each track of the multi-channal video 
installation utilized video captures of scrambled TV programmes in 
one-take without any editing at all. The installation makes use of 
looped tracks which are 1 hour in duration.

The Birth of an Unborn Nation
internet animation / video / temporary installation at public space . 
Artwalk . Amsterdam

A temporary installation was set-up on the streets of Amsterdam. An 
image the size of two by two meters is printed on a special plastic 
designed for backlight. Two strobe-lights placed behind the print 
create a constant flickering effect.

Dream Factory
installation at the Tvornica theatre . Zagreb

A permanent installation was set up in the then-newly opened Factory 
theatre in Zagreb, in 1999 alongside works by conceptual artists Mladen 
Stilinovic and Goran Trbuljak. The works were curated by Tihomir 
Milovac from the Museum of Contemporary Art from Zagreb. The walls were 
covered in newly designed wallpapers. The intensity of the red colour 
within the image is propelled by both red and ultraviolet light and 
ceiling which was also painted red.

p.sound
soundscape / sound installation

Initial sound samples taken from porno film soundtracks were 
multilayered and reprogrammed as a one-hour soundscape. A sound 
installation is created within empty gallery spaces illuminated with 
ultraviolet light.

p.sound [remix]
network project

A copyleft three minute version is displayed on the internet and ready 
to be used by other artists. Here is a permanent open call for 
contributions. Feel free to join! Make your remix and participate in 
the network art project! Upload multimedia or sound work directly via 
the web. All contributions will be displayed with no filtering.

p.sound [megamix]
live sound performances

The final steps of this process are live sound performances by 
different sound artists and DJ's. The only commission they have in 
common is to use all works created within this project. Audio 
recordings of live performances are available and published on an audio 
CD by EGOBOO.bits.

more info: http://darkofritz.net/projects/xxx.htm