Visitors of the installations Ditopia 02 and Ditopia 05 playing with the interactive system. A videograph from the remains of the recorded material from the RAM of the computer used for video tracking and movement analysis. Recorded at exhibitions in Station MIR, Caen, Tesla center, Berlin, Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, Kibla, Maribor, 2004–6. Author of the installations and videograph: Marko Košnik
Discoursor 003
5 December 2023 | 5 p.m. | conference room, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova
You are kindly invited to attend a talk with the polymedia artist Marko Košnik about various aspects of the digital and media fields and about archives, archiving, and the conservation-restoration practices from the point of view of Košnik’s artistic practice, moderated by Jaka Železnikar, the head of the Discoursor series. Before the talk, Košnik will present his work Figure in Space, Man in the Case, 1993.
On Tuesday, 5 December 2023 at 5 p.m. at the Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova.
5 p.m. artist’s presentation of his work
5:15 p.m. talk
Exhibited work
Figure in Space, Man in the Case, videograph from footage captured with IR surveillance cameras
Egon March Institute, installation at the Škuc Gallery, 1993, exhibition in darkness
The artist operated a sound and video system in accordance with the movement of visitors he tracked through three rooms from a control center in a case in which he “hid” during the three days the installation was active.
Technical support: Silvo Zupančič
Marko Košnik has worked as a polymedia artist since the early 1980s. He composes electroacoustic music, develops synesthetic instruments for live manipulation of sound and digital video, directs and produces solo and group performances, builds poetic platforms and installations, expanding them with social and technological envelopes all the way to interactive environments he prefers to program himself.
Since its founding (1986), the Egon March Institute (IEM) has invited individual collaboration in projects in accordance with the founding principles of collective work:
- the collaboration with collaborators in projects is based on individual artistic positions;
- only IEM’s projects are produced. Under certain conditions, they can be united with independent productions of invited collaborators;
- the documentation about realized productions is kept by IEM. Publishing archival materials is based on Creative Commons principles;
- if the organizers of the realizations cannot meet the conditions of organizationally and technologically advanced productions, IEM and collaborators build platforms that enable the realization through exchange of equipment and knowledge.
In this way, IEM has (until 2023) realized 72 productions, 28 of which were international, with more than 30 international collaborators in 16 countries on the European continent and in Mexico, Japan, and Indonesia.
https://www.youtube.com/@EgonMarch
Latest production: https://javnodobro.si/
Discoursor
is a series of six meetings organized in 2023 and dedicated to the issues of preserving, restoring, and presenting digital artworks, in particular works in which the (often DIY) software or hardware component of the computer technology used represents an important part of the artwork.
The meetings consist of two parts: a lecture or discussion and a presentation or short-term mini-exhibition consisting of one work or perhaps two. The presented works form a constituent part of the whole of the subject under discussion at the respective Discoursor.
