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[Tanja Vujinovic]

Exstat invites you to

Extagram/Oscilo, 2007

Sound objects in noisy domains

Author: Tanja Vujinovic

Soft plush objects, custom electronics (micro-loudspeakers, video  
camera, contact microphones, computers, and audio and video mixers)
Production: Exstat, 2007

www.exstat.org


Location: Institute Jozef Stefan Gallery, Ljubljana

Date: 14th November – 22nd  November 2007

Opening:  Institute Jozef Stefan Gallery, Ljubljana, 14th November at  
15:00

This project is supported by: MOL Culture Department, Tosama d.d.,  
and Conrad Electronic d.o.o. k.d.

Description:

Extagram/Oscilo consists of a multitude of soft, plush, toy-like  
objects incorporating custom electronics. The objects are of various  
dimensions, entirely hand-made and hand-sewn, and stuffed with  
sanitary cotton and electronic and analog devices. By touching and  
moving the stuffed toy-like objects, visitors create or affect  
already existing sound in a site-specific space.

The toy-like, soft, and plush sculptures from these cycles consist of  
several non-linear sound and video systems. They recode real  
situations as a broken data stream of glitch sounds. They address and  
question the main features of contemporary toys by means of close  
personal contact through touch, simplified cute shapes, and the  
construction of micro-worlds through modularity and limited, mostly  
sound-based interactivity. Extagram/Oscilo sculptures are built  
through a bending of visual and sound data via generated and routed  
signals. This flux of data is sometimes paused in order to enable  
insight into the uncanny events of the digital and analog signals,  
and into the aesthetic of the corrupted data. By touching and moving  
the stuffed toy-like objects, visitors create or affect the already  
existing sound. Objects are de-characterized by an absence of any  
facial features and by the uniformity of the black fleece texture  
they are made of. They are variable in terms of dimension, entirely  
hand-made and hand-sewn, stuffed with sanitary cotton and contain  
various electronic components that generate sound and video output.  
The paradox of the interactivity of this series is explored by  
assigning almost indistinguishable sounds that become noise whenever  
there is an interaction with the sound sculptures.

In Extagram1, close contact with the user is monitored by means of a  
real time video system that routes the contact through one of the  
toys containing a video camera. The toy-sculpture captures the signal  
from the space and sends it to a computer, where it is processed and  
transmitted to the screen of another toy-object. Extagram2 is a soft  
plush sculpture containing a video monitor that recycles audiovisual  
fragments. Extagram3 provides  insight into the textures and  
landscapes of toy micro-worlds by means of a micro camera that  
captures the surfaces of the stuffed sculptures. The second part of  
the sculpture is made of 16 corresponding clay objects that contain  
loudspeakers. Sound is generated from samples consisting of  
synthetic, play related, and childish sounds. Oscilo consists of  
objects which each provide a different kind of sound by means of  
touching or moving objects that contain pick-up microphones,  
miniature sound producing devices, or loudspeakers. The length and  
intensity of the tactile contact affect the audio signals produced.  
Supermono is a multi-piece sculpture based on mono audio signals in  
which three embedded microphones pickup signals which are then  
processed and re-routed to other objects.

Tanja Vujinovic (Tatjana Vujinovic Kusej, b.1973), is a visual and  
sound artist. Her work includes intermedia objects and sound and  
video pieces. She is the author of a number of video and sound works,  
installations and public art projects.

She currently works on "Sound objects in noisy domains", where she  
unfolds the signals in anomalies of intermedia textures through the  
creative use of technology and rhythmic images for touching and hearing.

Her A/V works and installations have been exhibited at numerous  
galleries and media festivals throughout Europe and the United  
States, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; Kunst  
Palast Museum Düesseldorf; the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art,  
Strasbourg; Kunsthaus Meran in Italy; and the Medienturm  
International Forum, Graz, Austria. Her works have been included in  
numerous collective exhibitions such as the Madrid Abierto,  
Euroscreen21 project, Zero Visibility, Ctheory Multimedia NetNoise  
and Web Biennial Istanbul.

Exstat (Zavod Exstat) is a non-profit art project production and  
research institution that works with various intermedia projects  
related to sound and visual art, art in public spaces, and theory. It  
continues the work of the institution "Automata", which Tanja  
Vujinovic co-founded in 2002 and reorganized as Exstat in 2006.








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