Phototectonics
The intensive communication between Matěj and Filip Smetana (1980 and 1983), prior to one of their further, occasional collaborations, culminated in research on the boundaries between the visual information in photographic images and the possibilities to transform gallery space using photographs. For Fototektonika (Phototechtonics) photography is a raw material used to create virtual structures on the border between wall images and the plastic deformation of space.
- Our exhibition is called photo tectonics,00:00:16.847
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- we might have made the word up00:00:19.525
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- as we hadn't found it on the Internet,00:00:23.213
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- but it doesn't mean it doesn't exist anyway.00:00:26.352
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- It's something photography and00:00:31.823
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- tectonics or architectonics have in common.00:00:37.164
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- Architectonics is something which comes before architecture,00:00:42.024
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- let's say an architectonic form.00:00:48.793
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- We could say it describes a way00:00:51.767
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- how to create architectonic forms00:00:57.047
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- with the help of photographs.00:01:01.812
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- Everything displayed apart from the tar,00:01:09.892
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- is created from photographs which00:01:14.046
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- can be normally printed or developed.00:01:17.043
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- Behind us are photographs00:01:21.235
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- printed on an inkjet printer and broken with water,00:01:24.701
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- in the next room are photos printed00:01:29.332
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- on an inkjet and a laser printer...00:01:31.931
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- In the big room with the column,00:01:37.659
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- there is a house created from six sprite elements.00:01:41.246
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- What are sprites?00:01:53.563
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- Filip should explain...00:01:55.828
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- Well, it's a way used00:01:57.883
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- when making games to save data,00:02:01.031
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- so that it's not so demanding...00:02:12.483
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- The contents in computer graphics is given00:02:15.757
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- by squares let's say 10x10 and00:02:20.166
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- each square represents a piece of a picture00:02:23.159
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- which is compiled from the pieces to spare memory.00:02:29.740
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- We make reference to it by having just00:02:35.634
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- six types of photographs,00:02:38.514
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- concrete, window, roof, stairs and a door.00:02:40.605
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- The whole house is compiled from these parts00:02:45.013
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- and it can be built endlessly.00:02:47.765
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- These are basic segments.00:02:49.808
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- I worked with it once when I had an exhibition00:02:57.768
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- with Katarína Hládeková in the Gallery of Young Artists in Brno.00:03:01.097
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- We worked with the tar floor there,00:03:06.281
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- which proved successful.00:03:09.931
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- It's an interesting material which is00:03:14.269
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- easily usable and cheap at the same time.00:03:17.551
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- It also refers to the beginning of photography...00:03:22.544
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- Using the tar is a bit embarrassing,00:03:25.043
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- as the first photograph was made on it.00:03:29.683
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- I tend to make conceptual points00:03:42.745
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- while my brother rather works with00:03:45.891
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- matters in a dynamic way,00:03:48.676
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- so the both ways mix together00:03:52.432
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- which is refreshing for both of us.00:03:55.639