Narvika Bovcon, Barak Reiser, Aleš Vaupotič: IF YOU LOOK BACK FOR IT, IT WON'T BE...

On Friday the 13th of January 2006 at 20.00 (8pm) an opening of the »If you look back for it, it won't be there anymore« project took place in KiBela gallery, Multimedia Centre Kibla, Ulica kneza Koclja 9, Maribor. The authors of the project are Narvika Bovcon, Barak Reiser and Aleš Vaupotič.

The project explores the possibilities of dynamic generation of digital spaces. Its interactivity revolves around two axes: the recording of user's input and the data-streams from the internet. From the opposite angle the concept acts in reverse - the user of the artistically encoded digital space is faced with hyperspatial text, the text that codes meaning by means of digital perspective renderings. To mention three fundamental layers: the movement of dunes through an infinite space according to internet data-flow and additionally determined by rules, the repeating square grid of internet radio stations that stands for sounds of wind in the desert and the encoding of the narrative within a spatial form (see front). The latter embodies the basic possibility of an algorithmic discourse, which supplies the user with the data according to his/her actions.

Programming: Igor Lautar
Production: ArtNetLab, 2005

http://black.fri.uni-lj.si/datadune/

About the authors:
Narvika Bovcon, born 1976. Since 2003 PhD student of theory of new media, Academy of Fine Arts, University of Ljubljana.
http://bovcon.com
Barak Reiser, born 1973. 1994-98: BFA, The Bezalel academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem, Izrael/Israel. 2000-04: Meisterschüler, Städelschule, Frankfurt/M, Germany.
barakreiser@hotmail.com
Aleš Vaupotič, born 1975. Since 2001 graduate student of comparative literature at the Faculty of Arts, Univ. of Ljubljana. 2004 masters degree in video and new media, Academy of Fine Arts. http://vaupotic.com