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- - I think that for the Artyčok.tv viewers...00:00:01.562
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- - I think it’s good to interrupt each other.00:00:05.893
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- - It’s like those celebrity couples who interrupt each other.00:00:09.511
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- – Are we supposed to do something?00:00:13.653
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- – How about… doesn’t it bother you00:00:16.646
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- that it’s too colorful and kitsch?00:00:19.902
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- Or the smiley that lacks any stylization,00:00:22.822
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- that is just the stupid symbol? – But why?00:00:25.926
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- In a way it represents the times we live in.00:00:28.767
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- And if it’s natural for us to sit and browse00:00:32.108
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- the Internet the whole day, then it doesn’t bother me00:00:35.846
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- what we have done here. It was our plan to get rid00:00:39.032
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- of the layer of nostalgia or melancholy00:00:42.426
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- tied to the space or to the site specific piece00:00:46.126
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- one does by commission. And I believe we managed00:00:49.665
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- to get rid of this layer here and come up00:00:53.076
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- with a new thing free of this influence.00:00:56.440
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- And regarding the colours: well, it begs the question.00:01:02.279
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- – But you do realize this doesn’t answer00:01:06.079
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- the question of its banality.00:01:09.438
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- – But we don’t have to talk about banality here.00:01:13.484
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- We can just say that it’s understandable.00:01:17.215
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- That everyone who walks by can interpret00:01:20.498
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- and judge it by himself. But it is simple00:01:23.739
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- since everybody knows the smiley.00:01:26.779
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- There was a dark night landscape painting00:01:30.010
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- by Andrej Dúbravský here prior to our show.00:01:33.265
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- And only this week when it was deinstalled00:01:36.365
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- people started to notice.00:01:39.865
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- Zuzana and Svätopluk were telling people:00:01:43.365
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- Look this painting is about to be taken down.00:01:46.365
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- And only then they realized there was00:01:50.765
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- a painting exhibited here for a year.00:01:54.365
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- So we told ourselves: Let’s do something contrastive.00:01:57.865
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- So that was why we opted for such00:02:01.365
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- an extremely positive contrast.00:02:04.365
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- – We had a feeling people here in Central Europe00:02:09.384
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- are kind of sad. So we wanted to do something that…00:02:12.396
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- – That cures them. – That amuses them00:02:15.527
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- or cures them. – On the other hand,00:02:18.581
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- what we have been doing and dealing with00:02:21.627
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- for the last two years is working with text00:02:24.883
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- and font together with image.00:02:28.002
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- – We have some kind of surface, a texture;00:02:31.377
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- we project it into some space,00:02:34.235
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- attach it to some surfaces and by that00:02:37.735
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- we generate a new surface.00:02:40.735
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- – Then we take it and cut it.00:02:43.735
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- – Sure, it gets remixed in all the individual parts00:02:46.735
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- of the process. But basically it’s just surface and space00:02:50.235
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- that alternate. Again, here, it becomes00:02:53.735
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- a texture mapped onto some space,00:02:56.735
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- somebody makes a picture of it.00:02:59.735
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- – But then you also touch it in. So it’s a loop.00:03:02.735
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- – Sure, you keep on manipulating it in individual phases,00:03:05.735
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- but basically only those two phases alternate:00:03:08.735
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- surface and space. – But there is also00:03:11.735
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- a virtual presentation of those things, where we are trying00:03:14.735
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- to make it look good on, say, the tumblr or various blogs.00:03:18.341
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- – The feedback has been positive so far.00:03:21.492
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- Nobody complained about it being kitsch.00:03:24.645
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- – Nobody has complained yet. – A lot of people took picture,00:03:27.669
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- which was probably our biggest intention:00:03:31.475
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- to let it spread further in hyperreality. – To let it live on.00:03:34.714