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|Creator=Mihail Bakalov
|Creator=Mihail Bakalov
|Date=2015
|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
|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.  
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.  
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 explores an alternative meaning to the otherwise dry statements. The topic of the tweets depict the transient space that on-line social networks creates through their accessibility and constant flow, putting users in a limbo state between work and free time.
|Catalog-Text1=[[File:WIFI-edited.png | 300px]]This morning before I opened my eyes I heard the sound of incoming emails. TOday is going to be busy. Mark Holcomb Jun 9 <br/>So tired today, can't even talk, but I can't stop tweeting about last night. Wicked Je Jun 10<br/>It is good that my skills of combining and multitasking jobs is amazing, I do it 24/7. Rene Ritchie Jun 10 <br/>While going to work I can work on my own work. Sean Jun 8
|Catalog-Text2=[[File:StadHuisPlatform.png | 300px]]why am i going home, when i will go back to work in a couple of hours. Leed NN <br/>Today work is going to tough, but i can always take a quick break and see whats up with my friends. Hayley B 8 Dec 2014 <br/>As long as I am on-line, I can be anywhere. Sarah Benham 16 Sep 2013 <br/> Yesterday I forgot my phone + I was late for work and I couldn't even tweet about it.  Dew.A 17 Jul 2015 <br/>on my way now , will broadcast later and share everything interesting i found today Chris JB 13 Mar 2015 <br/>THERE IS NOT ENOUGH TIME IN THE WORLD TO FINISH ALL THE WORK I HAVE. Ste Collins 3h<br/>I have the freedom to work anywhere, so that is really great, I can work all the time. Garrett | FaZe Bloo Jun 11
|Catalog-Text3=Social networks have given users the space to express them selves and socialize. Although Internet allows us to be connected all the time technology has changed the way of connecting with each other, which is different from the face-to-face experience. The collections of tweets used in this work brings up the effects of being always connected.  For this project I took inspiration from authors such as Sherry Turkle and particularly the book Alone together, which from the title clearly describes the situation technology has put us. The project “Platform” presents the transient situation people are in. The verbalized tweets show the merging of the our free time and work within the immaterial labor. The filmed material shows a transient space, a public transport stop, where people who look at their smart phones wait for the tram or the metro to arrive. [[File:SnickersPlatform.png|300px]]
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Latest revision as of 17:26, 13 February 2017

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.
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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. 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 explores an alternative meaning to the otherwise dry statements. The topic of the tweets depict the transient space that on-line social networks creates through their accessibility and constant flow, putting users in a limbo state between work and free time.