Marko Batista " Timing Diagrams"

Timing Diagrams, a sound performance by the Slovenian artist Marko Batista accompanied by Boštjan Čadež visuals; sound is played on a specific DIY retro-futuristic instrument devised for the performance by Batista himself; the performance flows according to a simple formula of sound + visual + mechanism and which elements are signs for three different aspects of reality which intertwine: electronic, digital and mechanical. The first element of sound is performed without any digital manipulation, while the visuals are projected on large side surfaces and a fragmented central surface. Sound and visuals do not behave as expected: the unpredictability of their relationship is exciting and disturbing for it does not correspond to our linear logic, which searches for symmetry and compliance in everything. The third element of the formula is represented by a mechanical device which reacts to the commands of the used instrument. The elements define a system of hybrid relations between three temporal diagrams: electronic sound, digital image and mechanical movement. By the end of the formula, what might be considered as the total, is stimulation and the state of absolute immersion in a technology defined landscape. Sound + image + mechanism = ambiance: and not one that tells a story and communicates meaning by narration, but one that draws the audience in much more directly, and immerses them in new ways of perceiving sound, a different way of listening to a sound/noise performance, and finally employing their senses on completely new levels.
concept and realization: Marko Batista
video: Boštjan Čadež
production: Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2011

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Batista, Marko (1976), Ljubljana based tech-media artist, sound researcher, video experimentalist and AV performer, born in Tito’s Yugoslavia. Batista focuses on themes such as displaced soundscapes, DIY electronic machines and frequency systems, video transformation processes, networking data, collaboration, hybrid ambient and other fields of contemporary inter-media art. Marko Batista is a founding member of experimental multimedia group Klon:Art:Resistance. Graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana and finished Master of Arts degree from Central Saint Martins in London.
His work has been presented in exhibitions and at festivals including Ars Electronica, Linz in 2008; 10th International Istanbul Biennale; the BIX media facade of the Kunsthaus Graz; Cellsbutton#3 – International Media Festival, Indonesia; Vienna Biennale 2008; Electronic Church Berlin; Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow; SLOWTIME 2007, Cologne; Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana; Pixxelpoint – International Digital Art Festival 2005, Nova Gorica; 15th International Festival of Computer Arts, Maribor; Zero Gallery – Transmediale 10, Berlin; Share Festival, Torino; LAB 30, Augsburg; Festival HAIP 10, Ljubljana.

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Mochvara Gallery, April 2012
www.mochvara.hr/galerija-mochvara, www.kontejner.org
galerija@mochvara.hr, kontejner@kontejner.org

organizers: Culture Development Association (URK) + Mochvara Club & KONTEJNER | bureau of contemporary art praxis
curators of Mochvara Gallery: KONTEJNER | Ena Hodžić, Ivana Jelača & Tereza Teklić
technical director: Matija Jelić
visual identity & design: Dario Dević & Hrvoje Živčić
public relations: Daniel Badanjak & Ena Hodžić

The programme is executed in collaboration with Zagreb Centre for Independent Culture and Youth

supported by: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Ljubljana City Culture Office, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia and Zagreb City Office for Education, Culture and Sport