Dan Adlešič, Tilen Sepič and Matic Potočnik: Form From Form
Lightning Guerilla Festival // From 28th May till 30th June 2013 @Vžigalica Gallery

Concept

Visitors are optically registered by Kinect, a motion sensing input device forming part of the physical interface of the Form from Form installation; in a return loop it projects a virtual 3D meshwork onto a man, thus deleting the borders between the online virtual body and the offline physical body. The spatial submergence into the hybrid environment creates an experience of enhanced reality, in which the perception of one’s own physical state is radically changed. The space is filled with sounds reacting to the density level of the 3D meshwork. The lighting net - when looked from outside - shows only in outlines, as an apparent hologram without distinctive specific features. Such kidnapping of individuality presents the absence of the body on the web, or the inability to link the web identity with the off-line person, which in extreme cases causes unrestricted asocial behaviour on the web. The physical interface stimulates distinctions between forms despite their apparent similarities. (Ida Hiršenfelder)

About authors

Dan Adlešič is an inter-media artist and designer, a graduate of design studies at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. He is engaged in new-media culture, connecting craft methods and practices with digital technologies.

Tilen Sepič is a co-founder of the Šiška Creative Zone, Rompom creative group and Muslauf cycling society. He participated in countless art projects and installations of interactive video art and photography, AV installations, 3D printing, tape-art actions and innovative solutions in interior design.

Matic Potočnik is engaged in new technologies, the development of software, and the excessive use of the Internet.

Production

Project was developed as a co-production between Strip Core/Forum Ljubljana and Ljudmila. The project was presented at Festival Lightning Guerilla 2013.

Production of the project was supported by Municipality of Ljubljana - Department for Culture.