In 2014, four writers (curator Andreja Hribernik, media art curator Jurij Krpan, sound art curator and theorist Luka Zagoričnik and I) were invited by Aksioma Project Space and Koroška galerija likovnih umetnosti to contribute texts for media artist Marko Batista’s publication Temporary Objects and Hybrid Ambients.
“MicroRobotic machines, as Marko Batista calls his responsive systems, are environments in which electronic, digital, mechanical and chemical processes become audible and visible. They are directed towards exploring acoustic localisation and the arrangement of sound in space, with which they regulate the perceptual spectrum, they choreograph the movement of the listeners in space, and they construct immersive, aesthetic ambients. They are based on various research tasks, which are grounded in the field of electronics, physics or rather acoustics, chemistry and nanoparticles, and other natural sciences. The machines produce practical conditions for the exploration of the phenomenology of sound and perception. The audio-visual abstractions, which have no fixed or anticipated point of origin, are issued from all directions as if in an unpredictable neuronal data network…” For more, please read the book available on demand in a hard copy version and also available online at the following link.
Naslov: Temporary Objects and Hybrid Ambients
Umetnik: Marko Batista
Exhibition curator, publication editor: Andreja Hribernik
Text: Andreja Hribernik, Jurij Krpan, Ida Hiršenfelder, Luka Zagoričnik
Production: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana and Koroška galerija likovnih umetnosti, Slovenj Gradec
Co-production: Museum and Galleries of Ljubljana
Aksioma artistic director: Janez Janša
Producer: Marcela Okretič
Technical support: Maja Batista, Urška Batista, Žiga Palčar
Year of publishing: 2014
Special thanks: Maja Batista, the Batista family, Kapelica Gallery, Boštjan Čadež, Nataša Mušević, Srdjan Deba, Primož Juvan, Lina Rica, Miljenko Kadič, Brane Ždralo, Matija Praznik, Žiga Palčar
Photos from the opening at UGM Studio: Vesna Mitrović