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Tanja
Vujinovic: Blipstat
Installation (video projections, objects, water, hydrophones, live
sound and video processing, computers)
CREDITS:
Author: Tanja Vujinovic / Producer: Jan Kušej / Production: Exstat,
www.exstat.org / The project has been developed in collaboration
with the Marine Biology Station, Piran, Slovenia, http://www.mbss.org/
Description of the project
The audio-visual installation Blipstat deals with the exploration
of hidden spaces.
The Blipstat audiovisual work consists of objects, the transmission
of data, and partially live processing of digital visual and sound
material.
Data retrieved with the help of Marine Biology Station Piran are
transmitted to computers, which according to previously defined
algorithms produce dynamic and changeable audio-visual signals,
which are displayed in the gallery space in near real time. Data
retrieved from the station by means of a video camera and sensors
that measure meteorological and oceanographic data, together with
the data captured by hydrophones in the gallery will continuously
provide the elements of the audiovisual installation. These elements
will be accompanied by a live video installation whose basis is
footage retrieved from the Internet.
Concept of the project
The exploration of hidden spaces and the search for new species
are being carried out simultaneously within the deep waters of the
sea as well as within the Earth's atmosphere and beyond. Footage
of so called space serpents, rods, EBEs (extraterrestrial biological
entities), and energyzoaea are available on many Internet video
services and mainly consist of amateur video recordings or official
footage with additional commentary.
Energyzoaea belong to the notorious class of animals whose existence
is not scientifically proven, and which are studied by cryptozoology.
The vague evidence of the existence of energyzoaea began to reemerge
in the 1990s, all based on anecdotes, supported by mythology, and
a small number of trivial video recordings. Energyzoaea, together
with other cryptids such as Big Foot and the giant sea snake, have
become a very popular part of the package of para-scientific phenomena.
As some sort of container for the projection of imaginary and poetic
situations, energyzoaea have sparked a series of questions and polemics
about the exploration of hidden spaces and the species that inhabit
them. In The Secret Life of Puppets, Victoria Nelson analyzed our
need to create and aestheticise simulacra and infuse them with soul,
pointing towards the ritual functions such entities play in our
lives. In The Tailors' Dummies stories, Bruno Schulz casts these
metamorphic, amorphous, transitory creatures as, in his words, a
kind of pseudofauna and pseudoflora, the result of a fantastic fermentation
of matter. These pseudoforms are the result of fusions of various
species, suspended at any transitory moment. Just like the Yeti,
Big Foot, and the Loch Ness monster, energyzoaea have also inscribed
themselves into the history of real-imaginary creatures within the
fabricated in-between spaces of the global imagination.
Blipstat juxtaposes popular video footage with scientific measurements
and observations of deep-space changes. As a continuation of the
Discrete Events in Noisy Domains cycle, Blipstat embodies the tracking
of informational noise within cyclic events, and as such continually
produces noisy evidence of the potential existence of (un)identified
discreet units.

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Tanja Vujinović: Blipstat
Instalacija (video projekcije, objekti, voda, hidrofoni, procesiranje
zvoka in videa v živo, računalniki)
KOLOFON:
Avtorica: Tanja Vujinović / Izvršni producent: Jan A. Kušej Produkcija:
Exstat, www.exstat.org / Projekt je narejen v sodelovanju z Morsko
biološko postajo Piran, http://www.mbss.org/
Opis projekta
Zvočno-vizualna instalacija Blipstat se ukvarja z raziskovanjem
skritih prostorov.
Delo Blipstat sestavljajo objekti in procesi kot sta podatkovni
prenos in delna obdelava digitalnega zvočnega in vizualnega materijala.
Podatki, ki jih zajema morska biološka postaja Piran, se prenašajo
v računalnike, ki po v naprej določenih algoritmih proizvajajo dinamične
in spreminjajoče se zvočne in video signale, ti pa se v realnem
času predvajajo v galerijskem prostoru. Podatki, pridobljeni s postaje,
kjer jih zajemajo video kamera in senzorji, ki merijo meteorološke
in oceanografske podatke, se skupaj s podatki, zajetimi s pomočjo
hidrofonov v galeriji, sočasno, v realnem času uporabljajo za ustvarjanje
zvočno-vizualne instalacije v galerijskem prostoru. Tem elementom
se pridružuje tudi predvajanje videa, ki se generira v živo in katerega
osnova so javno dostopni video posnetki s svetovnega spleta.
Koncept projekta
Raziskovanja skritih prostorov, želja po odkrivanju novih nebesnih
teles, živalskih in rastlinskih vrst, in kozmičnih fenomenov se
sočasno manifestira v vodnih globinah, pa tudi v Zemljini hemisferi
in seže dlje v kozmos. Video posnetki takoimenovanih "kozmičnih
kač", nezemeljskih bioloških entitet in pojavov so dostopni
na številnih spletnih mestih in so v glavnem sestavljeni iz amaterskih
video posnetkov, ali pa obdelanih uradnih posnetkov z dodanimi komentarji.
Takoimenovana zvrst "energijskih zoj" (v angleškem jeziku
“energyzoa”) pripada znanemu fenomenu živali - bitij, katerih obstoj
ni znanstveno dokazan in s katerimi se ukvarja kriptozoologija.
Sumljivi dokazi o obstoju teh živali, o katerih se ponovno govori
od leta 1990 naprej, so zasnovani na anegdotah, oprtih na mitologijo,
in pičlem videografskem “dokaznem” gradivu. Pojav "energijskih
zoj" je skupaj z drugimi kriptidi, kot so Big Foot ali pa velika
morska kača, postal sestavni del popularnega paketa psevdoznanstvenih
fenomenov. Kot neke vrste omnipotentna posoda, in naprava za formiranje
različnih vznemirljivih, čudnih, bizarnih vsebin, ali pa celo monstruoznih
posebnosti, je fenomen "energijskih zoj" izzval vrsto
vprašanj in polemik o raziskovanju skritih prostorov in bitij, ki
te prostore naseljujejo. V knjigi Tajno življenje lutk Viktoria
Nelson analizira človekovo potrebo po ustvarjanju, estetizaciji
simulakrov in vnašanju duha v te iste simulakre, ki kažejo na rituale
in funkcije, ki jih te entitete vnašajo v naša življenja. V zbirki
zgodb Krojačeve lutke ustvari Bruno Schulz metamorfna, amorfna tranzicijska
bitja, ki so po njegovih besedah neke vrste psevdoflora in psevdofauna,
rezultat fantastične fermentacije materije. Te psevdoforme so tudi
rezultat fuzije različnih vrst in podvrst, suspendiranih v kateremkoli
od lebdečih momentov tranzicije, območij liminalnega v procesu nastajanja
- prehajanja iz enega stanja v drugo. Kot nekakšni Jetiji, Big Footi
ali pa pošast iz Loch Nessa se je zvrst "energijskih zoj"
vpisala v fundus bitij, ki živijo/bivajo nekje vmes v prostorih
globalizirane imaginacije.
Delo Blipstat sooča popularno psevdoznastveno video gradivo z znanstvenimi
metodami, kot so meritve in opazovanje sprememb v vodnih globinah
ter kot nadaljevanje cikla Diskretni dogodki v hrupnih domenah uteleša
iskanje informacijskega hrupa v dogodkovnem horizontu ter kot taka
kontinuirano proizvaja "hrupne" dokaze o potencijalnem
obstoju (ne)identificiranih diskretnih enot.


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