Dark box
A French equivalent of a place for night disco party is boîte – a case or a box in other words. It isn’t necessary to present a discotheque in boxes of a room size today, the place is deforming and transforming into a play with an effect somewhere in the middle of a silicon heaven of our homes. The outside locks inside, the light fades away, the body movement disappears. We are being drifted not by an obtrusive melody of popmusic but by a certain kind of inaudible rattle, we let the rectangular altars on our desks to illuminate us, we dance inside, perfectly connected with the outer world. The stress is also being laid on design and applied function. These fast changing architectures substitute functions of wardrobes, storages, purposeless archives, they personify the vision of the future. However when mechanically uncovered, their masks will be dropped, the memory will be erased and a black hole of the physical underside will be activated. Only dust as a metaphor of the lost faith will remain.
- "Dark Box"00:00:01.295
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- The exhibition "Dark Box" is a result of a collaboration of five authors:00:00:16.102
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- Martin Bražina, Jakub Geltner, Jan Maštera, Michal Pustějovský,00:00:24.137
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- and Viktor Vejvoda from the Studio of New Media I at AVU00:00:29.398
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- and the Studio of Photography FAMU who often work together,00:00:33.074
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- influence each other and who in their works00:00:39.539
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- have a conversation with each other. The concept of the exhibition00:00:43.702
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- was focused on the current thinking of these authors00:00:48.957
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- that evolves around the technological conditioning of our reality,00:00:54.068
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- the source of virtual reality, i.e., computer,00:01:00.734
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- and the center of its activities - the hard disc.00:01:05.472
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- And that is how the concept of a discotheque came about.00:01:11.966
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- The presented works originated in our intense debate00:01:18.116
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- be it on the concept of the show or on each of the works.00:01:27.128
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- The connection with the discotheque is only passing and superficial,00:01:37.042
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- it alludes to the time which people used to spend00:01:43.819
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- actually hanging out and having fun00:01:51.124
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- while today they are having fun by sitting in front of a computer,00:01:56.009
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- isolated, immersed in themselves communicating with a virtual world00:01:59.895
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- in which they remain because of the computer and technology.00:02:10.320
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- The second issue we wanted to present in the dark room00:02:20.806
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- of the exhibition is the space of a church or the analogy with the church.00:02:30.402
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- For what today seems to be the source of modern spirituality00:02:35.532
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- and what today's technological individual00:02:44.015
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- worships is the computer and technology as such.00:02:51.857