Jan Poš, Štěpán Kovář, Karim Tarakji, Vojtěch Groot
Students of Time-Based Media Studio, Faculty of Art and Design, J. E. Purkyně University
Signal Festival has long supported the youngest generation of audiovisual artists. As part of this year’s accompanying programme, it will offer an exhibition of four students from the Time-Based Media Studio at the Faculty of Art and Design of the J. E. Purkyně University. The presented works reflect the themes of environment and climate change, ask disturbing questions whether what we see and perceive is real, and deal with the issues of space waste.
Jan Poš, Wind Vector
The work deals with the topic of the environment, more specifically the effect of wind on humans and the landscape. The work is based on the subjective perception of this element. It combines exact data obtained from meteorological stations and a sensitive artistic representation.
Štěpán Kovář, Traces
The audiovisual spatial installation reacts every time the viewer passes through the printed segment. The loud sound, activated by the passage of each additional viewer in the space, reverberates long after they leave the space. The sound layers on top of each other, grows louder with the new arrivals, and gradually fades away. In this way, the artist responds to the actions of living actors and relationships that affect the environment and our planet through their actions. In doing so, he gives hope that the footprint of all human behavior may be negligible given the longevity and complexity of the entire ecosystem. Although the imprint of our civilization seems significant at the moment, with long-term consequences, it will eventually disappear altogether. The age of humans will be a trivial phase of the planet.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWGwGRaVIzs
Karim Tarakji, Spacejunk
There are still millions of man-made objects orbiting our planet today that no longer serve a useful function. We refer to them as orbital debris. More than half a million of them are constantly monitored to avoid collisions with still active satellites and the ISS. This project monitors more than 17,000 of these objects in real time. Their trajectories are continuously plotted, layered and transformed. The given view corresponds to the exact position from which it is observed.
Link: https://karimtarakji.cz/index.php/installations/spacejunk/
Vojtěch Groot, Pure Wind
The installation thematizes environmental issues and the future of the Earth’s ecosystem in an experimental way. It refers to the artist’s interest in using subtle transformations of static sound surfaces, the use of diegetic movements and the search for harmonies in industrial sound fields to take the viewer on a journey through space with a distorted perception of time.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Qfqq7CPzc
