Saturday, August 15, 2009
Monday, June 22, 2009
Wolkendiagramm/ cloud diagram
Ceiling design for the café in the International Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz/A.
first sketch
The drawing presents a cloud reaching over the arched roof, as a reference to baroque ceiling painting. Several details overlap the cloud like intersections and turn it into a diagram - clouds in different contexts.
Some images show clouds in the narrower sense, other ones dust and clouds of smoke, contrails, dust bunnies or the internet cloud (the internet is mostly depicted as a cloud in computer network diagrams).
first sketch
The drawing presents a cloud reaching over the arched roof, as a reference to baroque ceiling painting. Several details overlap the cloud like intersections and turn it into a diagram - clouds in different contexts.
Some images show clouds in the narrower sense, other ones dust and clouds of smoke, contrails, dust bunnies or the internet cloud (the internet is mostly depicted as a cloud in computer network diagrams).
Achtung
Video
L: 05:53 min
Produced for "Filiale Auwiesen" by the Stadtwerkstatt, part of the "Festival of Regions", Linz.
"In 2009, in collaboration with Linz 09 Cultural Capital of Europe, the Festival of Regions will be oriented toward the southern edge of the city of Linz, along the Traun River, with focus on the satellite town of Auwiesen and the residential complexes of solarCity."
(www.fdr.at)
www.filialeauwiesen.at
L: 05:53 min
Produced for "Filiale Auwiesen" by the Stadtwerkstatt, part of the "Festival of Regions", Linz.
"In 2009, in collaboration with Linz 09 Cultural Capital of Europe, the Festival of Regions will be oriented toward the southern edge of the city of Linz, along the Traun River, with focus on the satellite town of Auwiesen and the residential complexes of solarCity."
(www.fdr.at)
www.filialeauwiesen.at
Hello Gümüşhane
Video
directed by: Stephanie Mold, Karo Szmit
Camera, Editing: Karo Szmit
L: 45 min
A 2009
„The major of Gümüşhane, a town in Eastern Anatolia, visited Lentos Museum of Modern Art in Linz and fell in love with the chairs. I know that because I was working as a museumsguard watching him. Instead of using those chairs as functional accessoires, he was inpsecting them as if they were part of the exhibiton. Then he told me that he was paying a visit to Linz as there is a Turkish community from Gümüşhane living here and that he would like to buy some of the chairs for his town. Unfortunately they were not for sale.
After he left I started to ask myself how Gümüşhane might look like.
So I decided to travel there by bus to Gümüşhane to bring him a chair as a present, tracing back the roots of a part of the Turkish population of Linz. During the trip I was wearing my museumsuniform which put me into the role of a performer. A museumsguard leaving the homogenic museumslandscape going on a more than 50 hours lasting roadtrip - with a chair.“
(Stephanie Mold)
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
sound stories part 5
sound stories, a project by feedback & disaster
watch video here:
http://www.feedbackanddisaster.net/article.php?id=1737
or:
Monday, June 9, 2008
Red Peaks and Green Spotted Ball
Animation for the exhibition "Leben im Strafraum", Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz
A project by qujOchOE for the UEFA Euro
http://www.lentos.at/de/45_1640.asp
http://www.qujochoe.org/
Saturday, April 5, 2008
site specific
temporary installation, video (mute)
Karo Szmit 2007
project for the final exhibition of art workshop "catching passages"*, Contemporary art gallery of the Brukenthal Museum, Sibiu, Romania.
*Casino Luxembourg - Forum d´art contemporain (Luxembourg)
Centre culturel Kulturfabrik (Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg)
Brukenthal Museum (Sibiu, Rumänien)
www.artworkshop.lu
http://www.boringbutnecessary.blogspot.com/
intercut
Animation
Karo Szmit 2007
sound: Bernd Oppl
Trailer for the Crossing Europe Filmfestival 2007, Linz/A
The themes are inspired by intercuts in Movies, athmospherical filling-scenes without action, for example glances towards horizons, sunsets, water.
Moving indoors, you see video pictures of artificial light situations popping up as screensavers on computer monitors . This film deals with the meaning of pictures between artistic aims and decoration.
"Szmit‘s animation film intercut starts with a bird‘s-eye view of the airport. Later the outward view to the sea is contrasted with the inward view to monitors displaying different images. In the end the camera glides into a movement reflecting the beginning across an extension cord with multiple sockets lying on the floor with various electrical cords attached. Electrical power network and the international flight route network now seem to be connected in a mysterious, fractal way."
(Crossing Europe catalogue)
Karo Szmit 2007
sound: Bernd Oppl
Trailer for the Crossing Europe Filmfestival 2007, Linz/A
The themes are inspired by intercuts in Movies, athmospherical filling-scenes without action, for example glances towards horizons, sunsets, water.
Moving indoors, you see video pictures of artificial light situations popping up as screensavers on computer monitors . This film deals with the meaning of pictures between artistic aims and decoration.
"Szmit‘s animation film intercut starts with a bird‘s-eye view of the airport. Later the outward view to the sea is contrasted with the inward view to monitors displaying different images. In the end the camera glides into a movement reflecting the beginning across an extension cord with multiple sockets lying on the floor with various electrical cords attached. Electrical power network and the international flight route network now seem to be connected in a mysterious, fractal way."
(Crossing Europe catalogue)
Le Grand Content
Animation
Clemens Kogler & Karo Szmit 2006
sound: Aphex Twin
narrator: André Tschinder
Le Grand Content examines the omnipresent Powerpoint-culture in search for its philosophical potential. Intersections and diagrams are assembled to form a grand 'association-chain-massacre'. which challenges itself to answer all questions of the universe and some more. Of course, it totally fails this assignment, but in its failure it still manages to produce some magical nuance and shades between the great topics death, cable tv, emotions and hamsters.
Clemens Kogler & Karo Szmit 2006
sound: Aphex Twin
narrator: André Tschinder
Le Grand Content examines the omnipresent Powerpoint-culture in search for its philosophical potential. Intersections and diagrams are assembled to form a grand 'association-chain-massacre'. which challenges itself to answer all questions of the universe and some more. Of course, it totally fails this assignment, but in its failure it still manages to produce some magical nuance and shades between the great topics death, cable tv, emotions and hamsters.
file is either
Animation (mute)
Karo Szmit 2005
expressions of failure during data processing on the computer. this short film deals with the topic of unexistence in general and within the virtual space.
Karo Szmit 2005
expressions of failure during data processing on the computer. this short film deals with the topic of unexistence in general and within the virtual space.
-probieren Sie andere Stichwörter/ -try different keywords
Animation
Karo Szmit 2004
sound: _radio magenta
As samples for the pictures I used photos from the internet, collected in view of in- and outdoors, which are defined by perseverative details and thus convey contents like work, privacy or romantic desire.
My interest is based on finding ways to illustrate static scenes lacking active performers. references to reality sneak into the drawings like the drafts presentiment of its future execution.
"Portrayed (image) search in the Internet, strolling in the form of an associatively steered keyword entry, implied possibility of interactive participation. The view into the void, intimated by a minimum of perspective and detail. "
(description from a festival)
Karo Szmit 2004
sound: _radio magenta
As samples for the pictures I used photos from the internet, collected in view of in- and outdoors, which are defined by perseverative details and thus convey contents like work, privacy or romantic desire.
My interest is based on finding ways to illustrate static scenes lacking active performers. references to reality sneak into the drawings like the drafts presentiment of its future execution.
"Portrayed (image) search in the Internet, strolling in the form of an associatively steered keyword entry, implied possibility of interactive participation. The view into the void, intimated by a minimum of perspective and detail. "
(description from a festival)
Kasztany/Kastanien
Video (engl. "chestnuts")
Karo Szmit 2001
An interview with a polish man living in Austria.
"(...) We get an insight in rigidly fixed ways of thinking, far beyond any political actualization. In this way, Kasztany/Chestnuts does not only differ formally, but also in its argumentation, pleasantly different from the usual reporting in Austrian broadcasting. While the ostensible claim to objectivity covers up consensual national reporting on Austrian broadcasting, Kasztany/Chestnuts presents without assuming a conclusion: an offensive statement against the creation of national myths."
(W. Widerhofer in the catalogue “Grenzziehungen ...was nicht zusammengehört”)
part 1
part 2
Karo Szmit 2001
An interview with a polish man living in Austria.
"(...) We get an insight in rigidly fixed ways of thinking, far beyond any political actualization. In this way, Kasztany/Chestnuts does not only differ formally, but also in its argumentation, pleasantly different from the usual reporting in Austrian broadcasting. While the ostensible claim to objectivity covers up consensual national reporting on Austrian broadcasting, Kasztany/Chestnuts presents without assuming a conclusion: an offensive statement against the creation of national myths."
(W. Widerhofer in the catalogue “Grenzziehungen ...was nicht zusammengehört”)
part 1
part 2
electric phenomena
Animation
Karo Szmit & Bernd Oppl 2001
sound: to rococo rot ans i-sound
originally part of an advertisement for the music festival "4020" in Linz/A
Karo Szmit & Bernd Oppl 2001
sound: to rococo rot ans i-sound
originally part of an advertisement for the music festival "4020" in Linz/A
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