Multimedia Mxhibition, Cafe Moscow, BERLIN KiBela, a space for art, was present at an important international event in Berlin on 17 February 2004. Namely, Slovene art was introduced and promoted in Berlin. Gallery KiBela, with its curators, made a selection of Slovene artist and shaped a programme that included an art group from Maribor - son:DA, project Pegla, Miha Krisch, who had prepared an interactive video game and Matjaž Krivic, internationally recognised photographer.
son:DA
The motifs of drawings made by a computer mouse are fetishised details of contemporary interiors, such as plugs, sockets, mobile phone chargers, cables, ... these are placed on the wall and appear almost sacral, although the sub-note of the techno world is obvious. More monumental formats show genre images that resemble Dutch interiors from the 17th century (a common person in a common environment at his everyday occupation), only with everything placed into the contemporary world. Satirical notes transform into paranoid visions of the restrictions of an urban person, who is connected with a cable to the traumatic social space of survival. The group son:DA, as one of the youngest art groups, was also chosen by Harald Szzeemann to participate at the international exhibition Blood and Honey - the future lies in the Balkans, in Vienna 2003.
Kalyuga
Matjaž Krivic is the master of emotionally loaded portrait and landscape nomadic photography. The computer programmed and modified multivision Kaliyuga is by all means intuitively composed, a perfect vision which includes plenty of emotion. The author uses the technology to upgrade some photographs into a spectacle of images and music that sometimes partly flirts with the post - hippy “ love, peace and harmony” ecstasy that resembles the Rainbow festival, since the author vibrates with social as well as with all the other living entities. He experiences love for the global paradise as the highest emotional and aesthetic value. With it, he praises humanity and living creatures in general.
Pegla
Pegla is an interactive ironing-based on computer multimedia that enables us to draw and create music while ironing. The iron assumes the role of a computer mouse and the ironing board the role of a mouse pad. With the idea of such ironing, the artistic project stimulates men to emancipation. Pegla brings back sociability and happiness to ironing.
Marvin Superstore
Marvin Superstore is an interactive computer game with a clear activist message. The slogan »Shop Until You Drop« at the entrance doesn't hide the message: consumption is bad for you! A player that enters the virtual shop is faced with the space that simulates supermarket with its shelves. Rules of the game that appear at the top right corner of the virtual space explain that every purchase demands a return. The award is not only virtual money but the analysis of psycho-physical condition of a user - shopper. Marvin Superstore is aimed towards a wide public, especially active consumers. Irrespective of the age or computer environment, it gives a clear message. Through the method of learning and entertainment the user experiences weaknesses of consumption. Superstore addresses the user to feel responsible to her/himself and to the global environment.
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