Platform

Platform
Creator	Mihail Bakalov
Year	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.
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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. 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. 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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