Information
Uršula Berlot >
»PULSATION«, 2007
Co-Workers & Funding:
Damir Šimunović (sound)Gašper Podobnik (radiology - University Medical Center Ljubljana)
Elsis d.o.o., ElektroNeon Vovk, Ernst Schering Foundation Berlin, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien Berlin, Ministry of Culture RS
Technology
Material
plexiglassMethod
Radiology (MRI), video projection, light reflection
Descriptions & Essays
Uršula Berlot 20-04-2020
The video work Pulsation presents pulsating light phenomena, the bodily and the technologically generated hybrid as a luminous apparition composed by layering reflected light, video projections of radiological scans of the artist’s brain and related manipulated recorded video images. – Uršula Berlot, 2007
'In their video installations, Uršula Berlot, Kimsooja and Norimichi Hirakawa are problematising the basic idea of the art tradition: the idea that art is an imitation of nature. This idea affirms that art is not only a production of aesthetic, but also of ontological, gnostic, and ethical relevance. As an imitation of nature, art is its own simulation, that is, art replicates and shows its own basic structure and the principles of its own functioning. If before modernity, we only knew natural phenomena - their appearance and results on the surface - the use of scientific analysis and artistic experimentation allows us to see what is actually going on within a natural phenomenon. Contemporary media artists have developed a poetic model which enables us to experimentally produce the effects of a natural phenomenon. For example, the trembling light apparition in Uršula Berlot’s Pulsation piece is a composite of the real and the simulated, the bodily and technological, that poses questions of oscillations between appearance and disappearance, presence and absence.' – Igor Španjol, Nature as a Simulation, 2008 (excerpt)
Uršula Berlot: PULSATION, 20-04-2020, in: Archive of Digital Art The video work Pulsation presents pulsating light phenomena, the bodily and the technologically generated hybrid as a luminous apparition composed by layering reflected light, video projections of radiological scans of the artist’s brain and related manipulated recorded video images. – Uršula Berlot, 2007
'In their video installations, Uršula Berlot, Kimsooja and Norimichi Hirakawa are problematising the basic idea of the art tradition: the idea that art is an imitation of nature. This idea affirms that art is not only a production of aesthetic, but also of ontological, gnostic, and ethical relevance. As an imitation of nature, art is its own simulation, that is, art replicates and shows its own basic structure and the principles of its own functioning. If before modernity, we only knew natural phenomena - their appearance and results on the surface - the use of scientific analysis and artistic experimentation allows us to see what is actually going on within a natural phenomenon. Contemporary media artists have developed a poetic model which enables us to experimentally produce the effects of a natural phenomenon. For example, the trembling light apparition in Uršula Berlot’s Pulsation piece is a composite of the real and the simulated, the bodily and technological, that poses questions of oscillations between appearance and disappearance, presence and absence.' – Igor Španjol, Nature as a Simulation, 2008 (excerpt)
Literature
Domjan, Alenka. »Slika: Prehajanja/Painting: Transfigurations.« Celje: Zavod Celeia, Center of Contemporary Art (2009).
Gnamuš, Nadja. »Konstrukcija realnega in virtualnega, Institut Jožef Stefan, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 6th – 30th of July 2009.« Ljubljana: Institut Jožef Stefan (2009).
Španjol, Igor. »Nature As a Simulation. In: Munz, Thomas (ed.). Conspire – Transmediale Parcours.« Berlin: Transmediale & Frankfurt am Main: Revolver (2008).
Berlot, Uršula. »Bio-organic Systems. In: MUNZ, Thomas (ed.). Transmediale 08: Conspire: Festival for Art and Digital Culture Berlin.« Berlin: Kulturprojekte Berlin GmbH (2008).
Exhibitions & Events
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