DIGITAL MEDIA

• The exhibition Digital Media in The House of Arts, Bratislava00:00:09.133
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• presents two schools outside the capital city,00:00:13.549
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• the Academy of Arts in Bánská bystrica00:00:19.279
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• and the faculty of Visual Arts, especially the studios00:00:23.093
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• Intermedia and Digital Media.00:00:26.800
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• As our guests we have invited the Technical University,00:00:33.961
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• the Faculty of Arts from the studio of Anna Tréterová,00:00:38.138
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• the studio of new media.00:00:42.274
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• The student works that we present here00:00:45.489
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• are part of a larger project00:00:48.433
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• which is the Vafex audio-video festival.00:00:51.765
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• During its six years, some 60 events have taken place.00:00:58.722
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• This event is a kind of climax of the six years.00:01:05.208
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• From Košice installations, there are interactive works00:01:11.346
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• as well as a stand-alone one-hour video set.00:01:16.805
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• The exhibition is laid out so that its format is not uniform.00:01:40.077
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• There are twenty quasi-workplaces, or cubicles,00:01:49.090
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• where videoarts are presented, or video performances,00:01:53.830
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• experimental films and so on.00:01:58.975
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• As for the themes, thery are either the medium as a reference,00:02:04.505
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• examination of the medium itself, video installations00:02:09.021
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• devoted to their own examnination,00:02:13.688
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• study of their environment, and so on.00:02:18.034
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• There are also themes related to gender studies,00:02:22.790
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• physicality. We have a special subject00:02:26.757
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• dedicated to video experimentation,00:02:30.411
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• so there is another half-hour set of such films.00:02:33.948
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• There are themes such as the attack on public space,00:02:53.677
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• acoustic attack in particular,00:02:58.825
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• or internet attack, by creating a virus which was00:03:02.179
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• able to spread into 70 countries and 50,000 computers,00:03:06.478
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• operating for some six months.00:03:10.651
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• This virus, as a screensaver, would override works00:03:14.548
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• by the students from Bánská bystrica.00:03:18.181
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• In the next phase of the more complicated things,00:03:21.937
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• there is net art, the ten-minute machinima film,00:03:25.032
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• or a virtual museum which is my art project where I have,00:03:28.838
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• apart from my twenty actual cubicles, inserted another twenty,00:03:32.915
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• where there are some of the same things, as well as others, that is,00:03:37.210
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• more interactive, so thery are post-production demos of these installations.00:03:42.299
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• A seperate cubicle is devoted to documentary film work.00:03:51.622
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• There are two works, by Arnold Kojnok, a documentary about Milan Adamčiak.00:04:00.902
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• The other 20-minute document is an experimental video documentary00:04:06.654
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• about the Koš village which has been sinking into the ground and00:04:12.342
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• the name of the film is "In the Slumps".00:04:17.203

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