Title of work: “OSCILOX. DISCREET EVENTS IN THE NOISY DOMAINS”

The initial sounds used for “Oscilox” were made through the computer processing and shaping of sounds from both synthetic and acoustic sources. These sound samples were made either for or through interaction with the objects-toys from the “Discrete Events in Noisy Domains” series.

Objects from the mentioned series embody the main features of contemporary toys by means of close personal contact through touch, simplified cute shapes, and the construction of micro-worlds through modularity, and limited, mostly sound-based interactivity. Mood-changing, interactive toys, and electronic pets are continually being produced around most of the planet for all generations, including the latest Japanese trends regarding toys made especially for older people, designed to express love by means of sound and which comfort the elderly population with their mere presence.

SHORT BIO:

Tanja Vujinovic (Tatjana Vujinovic Kusej, b.1973), is a multimedia artist. She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in the year 1999 and has been a guest student at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf. At the moment, she is pursuing postgraduate studies in Philosophy and Theory of Visual Culture at the University of Primorska Faculty of Humanities Koper.

Her work includes responsive sound and video installations, software and internet-based art pieces, multimedia objects, and sound and video works. In her projects, she deals with various phenomena and concepts ranging from chance operations, identity, interfaces, noise, non-linearity and toys, to privacy, remixing, signals, sounds, and surveillance. She is currently working on "Discrete Events in Noisy Domains", tactile-sonic objects or ambients made of multiple nonlinear video and sound systems that recode events into noisy audio-visual data streams.

Her audio-visual works and installations have been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums, such as the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg, the Kunst Palast Museum Düesseldorf, the Museum of Contemporary Art - Denver, Kunsthaus Meran, the Medienturm International Forum in Graz, the Cornerhouse Gallery in Manchester, the Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, and Cultural Center Rex, Belgrade. Her works have been presented at numerous festivals, such as the International Media Art Biennale WRO in Wroclaw, Videomedeja in Novi Sad, the Spor Festival in Arhus, the Zeppelin Sound Art Festival in Barcelona, and many others. She has also presented her work at various events, such as the Madrid Abierto in Madrid, Euroscreen21 at various locations, Continental Breakfast in Maribor, and Nuit Blanche in Paris. She has presented her Internet-based works as part of the Ctheory Multimedia's NetNoise, the Web Biennial Istanbul, Helium by Ballongmagasinet and NIFCA, and Sinnlos WebArt.

FURTHER INFORMATION:

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