exhibition
05/02/2010 - 27/03/2010

opening
05/02/2009 7 pm

Videospace Budapest

New Frontier at Sundance Film Festival

A collection of digital art, film screenings, multimedia performances, site-specific installations and video presentations will be presented in a fully immersive media lounge environment for Festival goers to experience throughout the Festival. Curated by Shari Frilot, Sundance Film Festival Senior Programmer, these works can be experienced at New Frontier on Main, open to the public Thursday, January 21 through Saturday, January 30, 2010. New Frontier is presented by HP and Sony Electronics, Inc.

A project about a person observing via Internet the normality of the world by tracking the emotional reactions of human beings. The project represents the interior of the lodging he is occupying. There can be seen all the hardware and software tools, he is using, for scanning and visualizing in real time. Most of his tools are broadly used softwares, some are obsolete ones and others very advanced ones. The methodology is based on the Antisocial personality disorder ASPD

Just before Christmas on 22nd (Monday) I will have a talk about my works together with Valeria Petkova, who is a very interesting researcher experimenting with human perceptions.
This talk will take place at Goethe Institute in Sofia and is part of Sofia Upgrade – a programme of meetings and presentations of artists, curators and scientists.
I will present my project Post Global Warming Survival Kit and will talk about my experiments in converting and modifying digital devices to work in infrared.

Text by Sabine Himmelsbach
Artistic Director of Edith Russ House for Media Art

In his infrared installation Post Global Warming Survival Kit, the Bulgarian artist Petko Dourmana plunges viewers into a post-apocalyptic eschatological scenario of the kind described so compellingly in countless science fiction novels or Hollywood films. Dourmana makes the fear of an invisible menace palpable, something to be physically experienced. On entering the room, viewers at first think there is nothing in it but an old caravan. Only the use of a night vision device enables viewers to experience the landscape surrounding them.

... When the dust covered the sun east and west lost any meaning.
There is only water in the north and in the south there are the storms.
It is nice to be in the south in the days between two storms but the risk is too high.

For now the floods are normal because of the nuclear winter but some day the sea will continue rise again. This is why the white guards are looking the water.
Theirs is the most important duty and everybody respects that.

The bacteria was invented by the Corporation before the launch of the nuclear winter. However only some of the people adapted.

Multimedia Installation

Enormous number of monuments were built in Bulgaria during the totalitarian system and each one of them was conceived to fill some part of the huge propaganda agenda of that period.

There were also propaganda structures that were made in the way of western advertisements and one of survived ones, a huge 12 x 12 meters neon billboard that is presenting how the traffic light works comparing to the traffic policemen (militsioner) can be seen as a monument of one of ignored now aspects of the system that time – its great effort to migrate from manual to automated control.

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Street Pushball (or Carboball) is game played with a three parts ball with 1.83 m in diameter that is designed as CO2 molecule.