East Art Map Online is a joint effort between the artist group Irwin and Renderspace – Pristop Interactive, the production company I was working for at the time, to bring the East Art Map to the internet as an interactive collaborative database. It allows visitors to post comments, suggest replacements for individual works and read news and articles by participating curators.

The project “East Art Map – A (Re)Construction of the History of Contemporary Art in Eastern Europe” was initiated in 2001 by the Slovenian artist group Irwin. The “East Art Map” (EAM) aims at critically (re)constructing the history of art in Eastern Europe between 1945 and the present beyond ex-Socialist ‘official’ chronicles, national legend formation and fragmented information present in the West.

Execution

Flash 7 frontend. Data (structure, text, images, video) is loaded dynamically via PHP 5/MySQL 4.1 backend.
Custom Content Management System written in PHP 5.

Involvement

• Website concept, structure and design /w Matevž Klajnšek
• Backend programming
• Content Management System /w Marko Novak

History of Art for the Intelligence Community is a series of Carnivore clients using classic paintings by Cezanne, Malevich, Warhol, Van Gogh and Mategna, dynamically modified to show certain events across the observed network.

Exhibitions:

• 14.09.2004 – 16.10.2004 Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana

Although I wasn’t involved in the original project, I stepped in to recreate the Cezanne client for the exhibition at The Chelsea titled “The Passage of Mirage – Illusory Virtual Objects”.

Execution:

A Flash 7 web and standalone client loading Carnivore generated text files.

Involvement:

• Image correction
• Flash programming

Producer:

Renderspace

Client:

SCT

Execution:

Flash 7 standalone application.

Status:

Finished

Involvement:

• Flash animation and programming
• HTML and XML tree editor

Memory is an interactive installation dealing with the random imagery that affects our everyday life in the urban environment.

Exhibitions:

• 15.06.2004 – 19.06.2004 Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana
• 09.09.2004 – 12.09.2004 The Belgrade Youth Cultural Center Gallery, Belgrade

Execution:

An X-Keys based interactive intallation with a top projection of a Flash 7 standalone application.

Involvement:

• Flash animation and programming

Thoughts:

We are not very clear on how our memory works. From our experience, long forgotten memories are accessed using different cues, mostly visual. These cues are rarely straightforward images of objects that we instantly recognize. Usually, they are small abstract snippets that, by themselves wouldn’t make much sense. On the other hand, they can much more clearly convey a feeling or a state of mind. Martin’s Memory deals with these visual cues in a playful manner, arranging the visual cues that trigger his memories randomly, enabling the visitor a glimpse into his inner reflection of the visually saturated urban environment in which he lives.

In American Beauty, Ricky explains his obsessive videotaping of the seemingly most insignificant curiosity with the line “I need to remember”. The need to remember is becoming an obsession to the modern man, where he can barely distingush his own life from the world artificially created by the media. In a struggle to exist in a life where everything is referenced as a line from a movie or part of a pop song, the photographs that we take and the videos that we tape serve to create our own biography, the movie of our life.

Martin’s reconstruction of his Memory goes even further. The visual cues that he presents in the installation brings up the question: Are most of our memories today tied together with commercial brands and logos?1