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Rigo Gallery   -     http://www.galerija-rigo.hr
Novigrad-Cittanova, Hrvatska/Croatia
Media-Scape 2006
29 August - 3 September 2006
"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. 
Cross-over 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


ORGANIZTION
Jerica Ziherl, Galerija RIGO Novigrad / Citta Nova (HR)
Prof. Dr. Niksa Gligo, University of Zagreb, Music Academy (HR)
Ingeborg Fülepp media in motion (HR/D)
Heiko Daxl media in motion (D)



PARTICIPANTS

Danino Bozic (HR)
Tomislav Brajnovic (HR)
Noam Braslavsky (D/IZ)
Heiko Daxl (D)
Matija Debeljuh (HR)
Srdan Dedic (HR)
Frano Durovic (HR)
Maurizio Ferlin (HR)
Alen Floricic (HR)
Ingeborg Fülepp (HR/D)
Niksa Gligo (HR)
Stanko Jusbasic (HR)
Marko Kosnik (SLO)
Andreja Kulundic (HR)
Rolf Külz-Mackenzie (D)
Walter Lenarz (D)
Antal Lux (D/H)
Mona Mur (D)
Kresimir Selektovic (HR)
J.P. Sonntag (D)


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