Intermedia performance Having initially perceived space as programme, Marko Batista has lately increasingly been constructing it as an integrated site-specific situation, which he generates by a hybrid integration of electronic, mechanical and digital objects. In the performance Timing Diagrams, together with Boštjan Čadež he develops graphic modular programme junctions, which they link with sound modules
Intermedia performance
Having initially perceived space as programme, Marko Batista has lately increasingly been constructing it as an integrated site-specific situation, which he generates by a hybrid integration of electronic, mechanical and digital objects. In the performance Timing Diagrams, together with Boštjan Čadež he develops graphic modular programme junctions, which they link with sound modules of an electronic device reminding of a futurist music instrument of a kind. With their visually acoustic space they do not trigger direct narrative associations; rather, they explore the phenomenology of audio-visual information by immersing the visitor in the acoustically visual ambient, which produces sensory, mental and aesthetic reactions.
Marko Batista, born in Ljubljana, is an academy-trained painter who received his master’s degree from the University of the Arts London / Central Saint Martins (2006-2007). He has co-founded the multimedia team KLON:ART:RESISTANCE. His AV performances and video works have been presented at over forty festivals and group exhibitions, such as the 10th Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean, Sarajevo; the exhibition „95-05“ in the Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana; Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow; Izolenta 07 Festival in St Petersburg; 10th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey; Media Art Friesland Festival 2007, the Netherlands; Visual Deflection festival, London; BIX-Facade Kunsthaus Graz. He also had a solo exhibition in Empire Gallery, London; in 2009 he participated at Ars Electronica and held the opening exhibition of Vienna Biennial. In recent years his works were presented at the Mutamorphosis Conference, Prague, at Simulaker Gallery, Novo mesto, Slovenia, MMSU, Rijeka, Croatia, Digital Film Festival, Greece, etc.
Boštjan Čadež explores the area of generated electronic image, video signal processing and of creating interactive user environments. He is among the most innovative authors of mapping video projections. He has asserted himself in the scene of club culture and has been a resident VJ for events organised by Zeleno sonce, Colours, Elements, Tetkine radosti, Astrodisco, Lost tapes… His Flash game Line Rider has brought him success in global markets. (Neven Korda) In 2007, he was presented the IGDA innovation award by the International Game Developers Association for this animated game. He participated in several intermedia projects of Neven Korda and in projects produced by Aksioma. He is also a member of the team of authors Cirkulacija 2.
Authors: Marko Batista and Boštjan Čadež
Production: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana
Programme of Aksioma Institute is supported by The Ministry of Culture RS and The City of Ljubljana – Culture Department
Contact:
Marcela Okretič, 041 250 830, aksioma4@siol.net
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