TWO VISIONS
Aleksandra Dulic and Kenneth Newby
video installation

Belgrade Cultural Center
July 01., 21:00

Two Visions will be presented on two windows of Cultural Center in Belgrade, one featuring the mirror—city and another the window—nature.

This work is developed exclusively for public art presentation at the BELEF International festival in Belgrade, 2004.

The image in the mirror is a painting in time with the motion that occurs in front of it. The marks accumulate in layers—tracing paths with the life of the street acting the role of brush and animator’s hand. At times the mirror reflects only a stillness—refusing to reflect what moves.

The window reveals what is hidden beneath the surface—the flow of life’s circle—the salmon returning to the exact place of their birthplace after a long life in the Pacific Ocean. They reveal themselves in the moment of their struggle to survive and repeat themselves again.

Kenneth Newby is an assistant professor in the School for Interactive Art and Technology at Simon Fraser University. His research interests focus on computational poetics, theorizing the role of encoded practices in new media and the development of interactive and generative techniques for the composition, sonification, visualization, and spatialization of multimodal displays and installations.

Aleksandra Dulic is currently teaching and working towards her PhD in media art at Simon Fraser University. As a media artists, researcher and experimental film director her research centers on the algorithmic cinema and animation, artist software, ontology of the open work, and multi-modal scenography for theatre.