TRANSIT DAYS by Slovenian part, Cluj, Romunija

Gostovanje v romunskem mestu Cluj, junij 2002:
ART-TRANCE, different visual aesthetic approaches which open the doors of perception of classical and electronic art media

Artists:

Marko Jakše, paintings
Marko Jakše is a classical painter, born 1959 in Ljubljana, 1987 graduated on Academy for visual arts in Ljubljana. He conquered the slovenian art scene with a fascinant visual metaphors, he perverts slovenian catholic menthality. From one side provocative and from the other melancholic he never respects the common ethic, he's playing with anything human mind could produce. Contemporary surrealistic, collective unconscious, mad and highly emotional. For Jakše a gravitation is a light burden, he swims, runs and flies at the same time.

Borut Popenko/Polona Pokljukar, video tapes and installations
Visual artists. They works in different visual media – from painting, photography, visual space installations to video. They emphasize visual on every possible level. Visual perception, form and colour is a base to everything we see, no matter where is the source. Borut Popenko is a vivid visual artist on a mariborian, slovene and international scene more then ten years. His curriculum vitae extends from Maribor to Mostar, Halle and India.

Dejan Štampar: Mini Kino (Personal Cinema), mobil installation
He is an architect, interier designer, visual communication designer and artist. He graduated on Faculty for Architecture in Ljubljana. Numerous products, designs and activities on many other fields. The Personal Cinema is a mobil and flexibile aparatus, similar to an old photographic camera. Its interieur is fully technically equipped for internet, video, dvd installations. Basically it is a perfect “hall” for one person. and different electronic installations.

Magdalena Pederin: The Name is an Anagram, sound and visual installation (on dvd).
The composition lays on dvd projection, where is visible half a million Da se podsjetimo u riječniku hrvatskog jezika matrica je:1. kalup s pomoču kojega se lijevaju slova, novac, medalje itd. 2. papirnate, plastične ili metalne ploče na koje je otisnut negativ teksta ili slike pomoču kojih se na stroju za umnožavanje reproduciraju 3. tablica na kojoj su u nekom odnosu brojevi razvrstani u neke retke i stupce. Mene je interesiralo treče objašnjenje ili kako sam zamisljala čitajuči dotične romane, matrica svih martica tj. beskonačna višedimenzionalna križaljka informacija.
Takoder LCD font kojim su otisnuti brojevi nije slučajno izabran. Kao i s prethodnom izložbom gdje sam izložila uvečane indikatore glasnoče snimanja, i ovom izložbom in perfromansima se bavim lumino ikonama, ili trademarkom suvremenog društva.
Instalacija se sastoji od uvečanih indikatora glasnoče snimanja. Indikator glasnoče snimanja naziv je za svijetla koja se obično u dvije boje pojavljuju na kazetofonima ili na profesionalnoj opremi za tonsko snimanje. Ona su grafički prikaz glasnoče zvuka koji taj čas prolazi kroz uredaj. S obzirom na to da gotovo svako domačinstvo raspolaže barem jednim takvim uređajem, sastavni su dio suvremene svakodnevnice. Nenametljivo, ali neizbježno prisutne. Teško je zamisliti suvremeni ambijent u kojem bi nedostajale, pa nije neobično da ih kao svojevrsni trademark suvremenog senzibiliteta često susrečemo u muzičkim video spotovima..... Magdalena Pederin 1998. Iako se brojevi u LCD fontu nalaze i u muzičkim video spotovima kao i na audio opremi, satovima, nalaze se na svim vojnim, znanstvenim i ostalim stručnim uređajima ali i na uređajima u svakom suvremenijem domačinstvu. Magdalena Pederin, 2001.

Matjaž Krivic: Kaliyuga, photodigital animation (on dvd)
V koledarju hindujske kulture Kaliyuga sledi obdobju, kjer intuicija prevladuje nad razumom. Kaliyuga je predstavljena kot doba prevlade razuma nad srcem. Označuje jo razmah materialnega razvoja, ki zapostavlja intuitivno znanje. Znanost in tehnologija nanovo odkrivata že davno odkrita dejstva, le da za njih iščeta nova imena. Kaliyuga se preveša v novo ero, ki bo sinteza predhodnih. Kaliyuga skozi Krivicev objektiv prikazuje območja, kjer ljudje še vedno poznajo pot srca. Matjaž Krivic (rojen 1972) potuje in fotografira življenje na obrobju sveta (Kašmir, Kambodža, Burma, Mali, Ladakh, Tibet...). Njegova neposrednost in spoštovanje drugačnosti omogočata, da so ljudje pred objektivom spontani, naravni in odprti. Posamezni posnetki se v napeti multimedijski predstavi zlijejo v intenzivno pripoved, v spektakel podob in glasbe.
Matjaž Krivic se je rodil 12. januarja 1972. Pri šestnajstih je prvič sam okusil privlačnosti potovanja in fotografskega raziskovanja. Že trinajsto leto so njegove poti na različne predele sveta vse bolj pogoste.
Avtor se je uveljavil z vrsto izjemnih fotografij, ki so bile objavljene v vseh odmevnejših revijah v Sloveniji. Odkar sta ga medse sprejeli ugledna francoska fotografska agencija Sipa Press in norveška agencija Millimeter Design, objavlja tudi v tujini, predvsem v Franciji in po Skandinaviji. Ema Kugler: HomoErectus, video (tape)

Music program and possible workshops (for workshops you decide it what time etc.):
Sebastijan Duh, pianist and composer (digital editing and synthesizer), a possible workshop and a concert Ansasa Trio, ethno “world music” concert, a possible workshop and a concert (but they leave on 6th of June, a concert must be on Wednesday, 4th of June) Illegal Kru, dj group (drum&bass)
Sunday Evening (1st of June) we come and stay untill the end.

TRANSIT DAYS BY SLOVENIAN PART, junij, 2002
by Aleksandra Kostič

Aleksandra Kostić, born 1966 in Maribor, graduated history of art in Ljubljana, Slovenia. 1994 realised a retrospective of a Slovenian modernist painter Rudolf Kotnik in The City Art Gallery Maribor and Modern Gallery in Ljubljana. She has worked in different galleries (Gallery ŠKUC in Ljbljana, Media Nox in Maribor and Gallery Hest in Maribor, City Art Gallery Maribor). Most important projects: Prima vista, International Festival of Computer Arts (coorganiser:1995, 1996 in 1997). 1995 – cofounder of TOX magazine, which has developed into special edition for electronic art in the frame of the Kibla. Cofounder of the Multimedia Centre Kibla and programme manager for visual arts department, named Kibela. Exhibitions: Urban feelings – urban facts (1998), Homo Sapiens 3000 (1999/2000), Make That Country ... (2001 – Styrish Autumn, Graz). Art critic on the field of contemporary visual art for local and national newspapers (Večer, Delo, Dialogi, Klik...) and editor of special conceptional essays edition I levitate, What’s Next... , TOX, Maribor, 2000. In 2000 in 2001 she was in the jury of the Webby Awards in San Francisco, category of art.