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Thom Kubli
Monochrome Transporter
2004-2005
Single-channel video on LCD screen with 5.1-sound
The photography
of a monochrome picture by Yves Klein that was downloaded from
the internet serves as visual basis for the piece. The digital image becomes
animated
whereby producing subtle digital artefacts and disturbances. A gradual
and subtle
change in colour temperature and brightness takes place in the picture
that still appears
to look like a monochrome blue plain.
The acoustic basis is extracted from Yves Kleins Monotone Symphony,
a piece per-
formed in 1960 that was downloaded likewise as mp3-file from the internet.
Only the
glitches and digital disturbances of Kleins piece are used and become
synchronised
in realtime with the movement of the image. The visual artefacts provoke
and influence
the sound particles. Dynamics and spatial localisation of events within
the image are
transferred onto the accessible acoustic space. By means of this sonification
the visual
fluctuation is projected at a high rate on the sonic settings.
Audio reminiscences of Derek Jarman, Krzysztof Kieslowski and further
cultural inscrip-
tions into the spectrum of the colour blue sporadically transit the uniform
soundspace
as ephemeral acoustic fragments. Monochrome Transporter focuses
on the ambiguous
situation concerning the influence of cultural inscriptions on a synaesthetically
affected
colour perception.
Monochrome
Transporter/ Video Excerpt
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Exhibited:
What
Sound Does a Color Make
Galerie
Rachel Haferkamp
Further
Exhibition Dates :
04.11-31.12.2005
Wood Street Galleries
Pittsburgh, PA
27.01-07.04.2006
Center for Art and Visual Culture
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Baltimore, MD
20.05-16.07.2006
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery
New Plymouth, New Zealand
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