AN OLD RED COMМ(PUTER), WHO TALKS TO HIMSELF / 2010-2011
a speaking object (sound installation) / old red laptop, MP3 player, stereo sound 6 minutes LOOP
dimensions: 29 / 25 / 31 cm
edition: just one original
Video-documentation can be seen bellow!
An old red computer repeats in several different languages this sentence: I AM AN OLD RED COMPUTER, WHO TALKS TO HIMSELF. The sound has been created by using online Google Translate. The entire sound is 6 minutes and 40 seconds long in its duration.
This work deals with the restoration of the Communistic system in Bulgaria and all post-socialistic countries, made by Old Red Commies and also with the economical rise of China, which produces the biggest part of all computers all around the world, having economical system, which is neither capitalistic, nor socialistic, but in the same time China pretends that it is still communistic country.
12.2011 / PIXXELPOINT 2011 - New Media Art Festival (catalogue) / NOVA GORICA / SLOVENIE - GORICIA / ITALY
The work has been shown at Pixxelpoint 2011 - New Media Art Festival (catalogue), curators BRIDA, Nova Gorica, Slovenia / Goricia, Italy. Unfortunately, I haven't any photos from this exhibition.
Another replica of the work has been shown at FAR: Festival for Art as a Research (catalogue), Ottersberg, Germany
