San Francisco Film Society Presents:
55th SF Intl Film Festival: Kinotek- Karolina Sobecka
- When
- Event has passed (Fri Apr 20, 2012 - Thu May 3, 2012)
- Tags
- Movies, Film Festivals
Description
As part of the Film Society’s ongoing KinoTek programming stream, trailblazing artist Karolina Sobecka will install several dynamic works at SuperFrog Gallery, just upstairs from the Film Society Cinema.A leading figure in the production of interactive installations, Karolina Sobecka uses animation, interface design and humor to comment on the ways that we use our bodies and gestures to navigate and understand our overtly mediated environments. Several of her installations will be on view. Pornographic Pursuit 2 engages the boundary between narrativity and spectacle. A film loop of Marilyn Monroe disrobing will only run to completion if viewers jog in place at increasing pace. Stability presents the tumultuous life of a man whose living space can be disrupted at any moment by gallery visitors if they jostle a cube on a pedestal representing his room. He records the event in a disaster logbook, and then sets about re-organizing his space—until someone comes along and upsets it again! Surveyor is an iPhone app tied to a mobile video projector, where a user controls the gaze and environment of a projected image of a man who logs everything he sees, a puppet of sorts who becomes the entry point for reinterpreting and re-envisioning the reality of the environment. Capacity to Act in a World investigates the limits and meaning of human agency by presenting behavior within an interdependent matrix of elements including the gallery visitor herself. All the Universe Is Full of the Lives of Perfect Creatures is an interactive mirror that returns the viewer’s reflection but with a superimposed animal face. —Sean Uyehara
For more info visit http://festival.sffs.org/events/kinotek.php
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