MACHINA D'AMORE explores the position of human intimacy in the age of digital civilization. Technology brings people closer to each other, but is it really so? What about hugs and kisses in the cyber world? In order to set the 19th century mechanical automaton in motion, a light effort was needed to wind the spring with the thumb and index finger. Nowadays, not even that is required. In Machina d'amore, automatism is inscribed in the very structure of the automaton. Entirely disregarding the development of computer graphics, animation has been automatized by the text of the software so that in the end it appears through the text -- of poetry. This collage based work makes use of poetry by Giambattista Marino and Torquato Tasso, movie inserts from Casablanca and Showgirls (among others), piano music by Andreja Andric, and piano playing by Ana Zorana Brajovic.
Full Description
MACHINA D'AMORE explores the position of human intimacy in the age of digital civilization. Technology brings people closer to each other, but is it really so? What about hugs and kisses in the cyber world? In order to set the 19th century mechanical automaton in motion, a light effort was needed to wind the spring with the thumb and index finger. Nowadays, not even that is required. In Machina d'amore, automatism is inscribed in the very structure of the automaton. Entirely disregarding the development of computer graphics, animation has been automatized by the text of the software so that in the end it appears through the text -- of poetry. This collage based work makes use of poetry by Giambattista Marino and Torquato Tasso, movie inserts from Casablanca and Showgirls (among others), piano music by Andreja Andric, and piano playing by Ana Zorana Brajovic.
Work metadata
- Year Created: 2011
- Submitted to ArtBase: Saturday May 28th, 2011
- Original Url: http://videochannel.newmediafest.org/andric.html
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Work Credits:
- andreja, primary creator
- Igor Vasiljev, primary creator
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