Synthetic audiovisual artwork by Audition Color Lab and Igor Isychenko In the synthetic audiovisual work Atomic Kitchen several key attempts were undertaken. By applying certain principles of selection of visual material and its subsequent editing and interaction of editing principles with music an attempt was made to give viewers/listeners the feeling and experience - at the irrational , affective level - of a dizzying change of technological forms, accompanied by transformations in our attitude towards ever-changing, constantly striving to achieve its perfection technology. Such an attitude is constantly under pressure and interacts closely with the images and modes of representation of technology that can be easily found in the mass media, the official propaganda media, and popular culture. As the non-narrative collage video unfolds, its key theme becomes evident: history of technology in the USSR and the USA, the two perhaps most important for this history states. But still, there is another history of technology, the one that never happened, this ‘would be’ dimension - the subjunctive, utopian impulse, whatever it is named – be it the electrification of the whole country or our friend the atom - which so clearly shines through in the films of Vertov , Dovzhenko, as well as in commercials on peaceful nuclear future from the American 1950s. To identify it and to give the viewer / listener feeling of this utopian residue that is present even when and where the hearts of machines ( Vertov ) catastrophically collapse, interrupting the flow of blood in the fabric of human civilization – that is another, probably the most difficult of the Atomic Kitchen project attempts.
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 23:01:02 +0000
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