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Platform
Creator	Mihail Bakalov
Year	2015
Bio	Mihail Bakalov [BG] is a media artist dealing with on-line social networks, digital footprints and metaphysical characters of objects. His methodology of working is through observation and isolation of hidden or neglected elements in daily life. Some of the visuals he creates appear as dreamlike images with fictional elements, where meanings of reality shift.
Thumbnail	[[File:StadHuisPlatform.png why am i going home, when i will go back to work in a couple of hours Today work is going to tough, but i can always take a quick break and see whats up with my friends As long as I am on-line, I can be anywhere Yesterday I forgot my phone + I was late for work and I couldn't even tweet about it. on my way now , will broadcast later and share everything interesting i found today THERE IS NOT ENOUGH TIME IN THE WORLD TO FINISH ALL THE WORK I HAVE I have the freedom to work anywhere, so that is really great, I can work all the time.\|thumb]]
Website	http://cargocollective.com/mihailbakalov

Platform is an audio-visual installation, which gives an alternative view of mundane messages posted on on-line social networks. This project presents the loneliness in the on-line socialization on everyday basis. The construction of the piece is similar to a musical composition, reflecting the emotion that the content carries. Platform consists of scraped messages from twitter from different users and combines them into a new collective profile. The tweets verbalized and synchronized with visuals try to bring out the personal character that stands behind the message. The piece also tries to show a deeper meaning to the otherwise dry statements.

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 |Creator=Mihail Bakalov
 |Date=2015
-|Bio=Mihail (BG, 1988) is a media artist dealing with on-line social networks, digital footprints and metaphysical characters of objects. His media artworks vairy from still and moving images to interactive works about repurposing existing on-line interfaces. Some of the visuals he creates appear as dreamlike images with a fictional elements, where meanings of reality are shifting. His methodology of working is through observation and isolation of hidden or neglected elements of mundane objects and situations.
+|Bio=Mihail Bakalov [BG] is a media artist dealing with on-line social networks, digital footprints and metaphysical characters of objects. His methodology of working is through observation and isolation of hidden or neglected elements in daily life. Some of the visuals he creates appear as dreamlike images with fictional elements, where meanings of reality shift.
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 |Website=http://cargocollective.com/mihailbakalov
-|Description=Platform is an audio-visual installation, which gives an alternative view of mundane messages posted on on-line social networks. It is a fictional construction, created from real user-generated content. The work presents everyday repetitive actions and states of mind with their diversity and richness. The construction of the story is similar to a musical composition, reflecting the emotion that the content carries.
+|Description=Platform is an audio-visual installation, which gives an alternative view of mundane messages posted on on-line social networks. This project presents the loneliness in the on-line socialization on everyday basis. The construction of the piece is similar to a musical composition, reflecting the emotion that the content carries.
+Platform consists of scraped messages from twitter from different users and combines them into a new collective profile. The tweets verbalized and synchronized with visuals try to bring out the personal character that stands behind the message. The piece also tries to show a deeper meaning to the otherwise dry statements.
-Social networks give the space to present user express opinions and share experiences where they are amplified by the system, given more attention and value. Exploring the content which describes everydayness, i found inspiration from the definition of the word mundane – from Latin ‘mundus’ , which means the world.
-The piece features filming, done through a rear window of a tram framing the people waiting on the station. It was recorded in a high frame rate. The slowed down audio and video presented another tempo to reality, bringing more perception to everydayness and more detailed information about actions. The filmed people seemed to be engaged with them selves, reflecting the monologue aspect of the tweets from the script. By nature the tweets on mundane topics are quite straightforward and dry, but when being verbalized the emotion of the voice adds flavour and opens them up to be interpreted. The arrangement of the messages creates a musical composition, where the spoken out tweets add to the rhythm of the slowed down emvironmental audio-track.
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+This morning before I opened my eyes I heard the sound of incoming emails. TOday is going to be busy.
+So tired today, can't even talk, but I can't stop tweeting about last night.
+It is good that my skills of combining and multitasking jobs is amazing, I do it 24/7.
+While going to work I can work on my own work
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+|Thumbnail=StadHuisPlatform.png
+why am i going home, when i will go back to work in a couple of hours
+Today work is going to tough, but i can always take a quick break and see whats up with my friends
+As long as I am on-line, I can be anywhere
+Yesterday I forgot my phone + I was late for work and I couldn't even tweet about it.
+on my way now , will broadcast later and share everything interesting i found today
+THERE IS NOT ENOUGH TIME IN THE WORLD TO FINISH ALL THE WORK I HAVE
+I have the freedom to work anywhere, so that is really great, I can work all the time.
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