Janis Klimanovs Trimester 2 2012
Janis Klimanovs, Trimester 2, 2012
Movement
Description
The project research explores boundaries of lens based medium, looking for manipulation possibilities and finding related connections from history. Practically it displays how to construct a movement of a human body by using digital tools. Visual material has been reassembled and processed in a software, the result is a fast moving image sequence that shows a movement which is corrupted by software, in a way representing time and deformed body move. It is yet another way of manipulating reality, another way of experiencing reality by using these contemporary tools. It is interesting how things can be interpreted, mixed together in the fast, mind-blowing information age.
The performance
The piece is exhibited in Boerhaave Museum exhibition "Augmented Bodies". The work discuss the promise of the body and how it can be interpreted. The portrait is enhanced with a virtual layer. The hidden augmented world of the work is revealed when a smartphone or tablet is directed at the portrait. On the digital screen the hidden reality unfolds engaging the spectator and resulting in a strong connection with the work.
Photos
Other media and documentation of the project will appear soon;
Video
Other media and documentation of the project will appear soon;
Essay
Additional Information
The questions after the assessment:
What is the architecture of the image, why do I use software and what is the meaning of it? They want to know, what can I do with it? How can I develop my investigations? Start looking for an answer to the question, why I want to distort an image? Why representation of an unreal thing is necessary?
The why, what is interesting, is: why the post-photographical qualities are interesting nowadays? And how they develop and become necessary? Find a meaning to your technical experiments. What is unique in what I am doing, what are the qualities of my work and how can they become important?
Shaping your body
Description
The natural human body is the most beautiful. We are building our body by ourselves and it is mirroring who we are. If the body is going to be transformed in an unnatural way, it will be damaged. An error in the human life can trigger a progressive complication in the lifecycle. Problems can develop by themselves and reach an uncontrollable stage. Looking at the printed poster, the spectator can experience every tiny detail of the body as pure and natural as it is. On the other hand, the video work is a metaphor that draws a connection to the digital image in the information age. The digital moving image is exposing a progressive destruction, a transformation to something that we do not know and can not control.
The performance
The piece is exhibited in Boerhaave Museum exhibition "Augmented Bodies". The work discuss the promise of the body and how it can be interpreted. The portrait is enhanced with a virtual layer. The hidden augmented world of the work is revealed when a smartphone or tablet is directed at the portrait. On the digital screen the hidden reality unfolds engaging the spectator and resulting in a strong connection with the work.
Photos
Other media and documentation of the project will appear soon;
Video
Other media and documentation of the project will appear soon;