Reporting from Day one of OFFF Barcelona: International Festival for the Post-Digital Creation Culture Mario Klingemann seems like a cheerful guy from Munich, but he’s actually a heavyweight of the Flash-scene and showed a couple of his projects here, many of which deal with digital found footage. After playing around a bit with images from Flickr to create kaleidoscopic effects, he realized that this is actually an interesting way to create small narratives that have an inherent unpredictability about them. His piece Flickeur “randomly retrieves images from Flickr and creates an infinite film with a style that can vary between stream-of-consciousness, documentary or video clip,” a technique which gives it a suggestive power that comes, apart from the sound, without any influence by the artist. Built on that is Islands of Consciousness, in collaboration with sound artist, Oleg Marakov, which gives back a bit more control since it is doing a kind of “tag-surfing” that narratively ties together a bit more closely what appears on the screen, though it’s still random. One of his latest projects is The Stake, a sort of Anti-Amazon, which allows you to burn the media you’ve always hated and have only ever been allowed to… (more)
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