[spectre] (fwd) Photo of the Day (PhD), Hungary

[Andreas Broeckmann]

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Datum: 	Sun, 7 Jun 2015 16:45:53 +0200
Von: 	szacsva y pal <szacsvay at gmail.com>


photo of the day

http://phdhp.blog.hu/

Since the parliamentary elections of 2010, Hungary has an autocratic
government which spends considerable money on the construction of its
own image: kind of a rosy picture about Hungary’s glorious days enjoyed
by its citizens, under their brave government’s rule. One example of
this is the website called “Hungary Matters”
http://mtva.hu/hu/hungary-matters-articles/7000-hungary-matters-image-gallery-morning-issues-2014, 
an online media channel of the highly centralized Hungarian Public 
Service Media, written in English. Here „Hungarian reality” is expressed 
through articles and photographs published day by day, accompanied by 
English captions. Each picture is called: “Photo of the Day”.

Szacsva y Pal, a Hungarian artist picks up some of these photos
http://phdhp.blog.hu/ („of the day”) and transforms them with a
sometimes corrective, other times deconstructive or even vandalizing
intention, using  a method called ‘perinarrative retouch’, specifically
developed by himself for this purpose. Every single detail of the
manipulative process is recorded with a screen capture software,
resulting thus a moving image. Szacsva y Pal called his own artistic
project on the same title: „Photo of the Day” (PhD) and asked other
artists to create sound tracks for the moving graphic images.

Collaborating artists: Balázs Beöthy, Lőrinc Borsos, Roland Farkas,
Judit Fischer, János Fodor, Ferenc Gróf, Nándor Hevesi, Zsolt Keserue,
Tamás Komoróczky, Stranger Foreigner, Mike Nylons, György Orbán, András
Ravasz, Kornél Szilágyi

One version of the artistic project: Photo of the Day
http://offbiennale.hu/photo-of-the-day-2/ is part of Off Biennial
Budapest http://offbiennale.hu/en/ . It was created as a response to
the initiative of Eszter Lázár and Edina Nagy, curators of the „When the 
art(ist) speaks” project.