EDITION 7
KATA MORAVSZKY & PÉTER ÜVEGES - ALT_GR+5
nationality: HUNGARY
duration: 2'27"
made in: 2013
previous screenings: Denkmaschienen/Gondolkó gépek pályázat Bécs 2013 május
biography:
Kata Moravszki/visual + Péter Üveges/sound, noise
2012- Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts_ Department of Graphic Arts / Budapest
Péter Üveges
2012- Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts_ Department for Graphic Design/ Budapest
synopsis:
K.M: When I was a child I often used to play with classical video games. In the TV screen I usually could see the pixels of the pictures and they were mostly cloudy. If I wanted to clear the picture I had to hit the gear. So my gif video has almost the same vision as those video games, it includes memories from the child- hood, old timer animations full of pixels like Mario or bloody shooting games I used to play with my brother.
This games are a bit silly, wooden and random but I won’t say they’re forgottable. They infuenced me to create this video. It was important to make the video with gif technique because that way I was able to animate still pictures too. It’s very special because pictures are varying from time to time defining by ourselves, so they’ll be animated. There is only one disatvantage by this technique: if you use it in itself you can’t add suonds. That’s why the gifs are bound, so we could compose a music which suits all the gifs.
Because it can handle with at longest 8 bits which means 256 colours it was obvius to use a similar look as in the game revolutin in the 90’s. By the way it was important not to make a too long video because playing it endlessly has that concen- tricity from the titel. The circle refers to the daily routine which turns somtimes into an automatic repetition. All parts of the video are in connection with my life, they are not definitely realistic or traceable drawings. My purpose was to get a kind of audio-visual shock. I wanted to find the accord between the ancient chaos and monotonic noise and to set free automation.
P.Ü.: We wanted to call back several kind of musical atmospheres with the audio of the video. On the one part it refers to the 8 bits sounding of the elementary video games from the 90’s because the ’gif’as a subcultural thing is very similar to them. The video is made from sequences one after the other completely irrational. It makes the viewers to search conection between things which are completely different, to find sense in nought. That’s why I tried to follow the nihilistic dada style with the music which has no rythm, everithing hap- pens by chance just like in the video. The music is also impessed by Luigi Russolo a futurist artist and musician from the 20’s who is known about creating the first noise music. He made huge acustical boxes to set up silence to a noise level you can’t stand. I create the music by using only one synthesizer and one softver. I cut randomly sounds from films, songs and advertisments. To reach the highest noise level I used exaggerated guitarre booster and blowers.