Tanja Vujinović / Oscilorama

Tanja Vujinović / Oscilorama
Multimedia exhibition, Kibela gallery (MMC Kibla) and Glavni Trg (The Main Square), Maribor
Objects in public space and the gallery, electronic components, computers

The opening of the exhibition Oscilorama by Tanja Vujinović took place on Friday 3 July 2009 at 8 pm at Glavni trg in front of the Communication information point KIT.

Oscilorama consists of multiple textile and PVC objects that contain various electronic components.

Oscilorama embodies features of electronic pets, due to which an increasing number of sophisticated responsive functions are entering our intimate sphere, as mediators in our daily lives. By means of invisible electronic components, the inbuilt functions set up systems whose exteriors are inviting and seductive, which due to agreeable interfaces, an array of sensors, and the inclusion of touch functions affect our daily work, social lives, and play.

A signal from the camera installed on the object-balloon that floats outside in the public space is continually transmitted to the main station, where processing is carried out by a custom-made computer program: everything that happens within the frame is translated into algorithmic values that generate real-time audio and video signal in the gallery. The result is an audio-visual composition generated by passers-by. The Oscilorama tactile audio-visual environment is additionally composed of plush and plastic objects in the gallery that also participate as components in the generation of random data.

Oscilorama belongs to the Discrete Events in Noisy Domains cycle of works. The cycle consists of tactile-sonic objects or environments that recode events into data streams of audio-visual textures with the help of nonlinear video and sound transmissions.

Oscilorama, 2009 / Author: Tanja Vujinović / Producer: Jan A. Kušej / Technical realisation: Tanja Vujinović, Jan Kušej, Lenart Kranjc / The project is supported by: Protrans d.o.o. / Production: Kibla and Exstat, www.exstat.org

Tanja Vujinović is a visual and sound artist. Her work includes multimedia objects and sound and video pieces. She is currently working on "Discrete Events in Noisy Domains", tactile-sonic objects or ambients made of multiple nonlinear video and sound systems that recode events into data streams of audio-visual noise. Her audio-visual works and installations have been exhibited at numerous galleries and festivals, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; Kunst Palast Museum Düsseldorf; 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, Ctheory Multimedia NetNoise and Web Biennial Istanbul. (www.exstat.org)

The exhibition is on display until 11 July 2009.