2020-ongoing

Faulty technology

Faulty technology is a multimedia project that questions the potential of visual mutation based on technological glitches and accidents.

It renegotiates the connections between dissociated fields: analogue vs. digital, still vs. moving image, body in presence vs. absence.

It builds on decomposing the moving image medium that records fluid body movement back into the structural photographs, frame by frame, from digital to analogue: digital frame to printed material – for instance, an inkjet printer that shifts the basic images into a visual realm that is no longer recognizable within the initial visual frame.

By looking into the anatomy of the medium and growing back into moving image, analogue slides back into the digital in a resulting hybrid that feels more like an “object”, a piece difficult to label as belonging to a particular field, bringing forth a version of reality that can only be seen through the glitched and occasionally faulty instrumenting technology.

Multi-screen video / Installation / Intermedia


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Collaborators:

Irina Marinescu - movement / choreography

Andrei Tudose - video edit

Monocube - music (festival-run)

Federico Perotti - music / organ improv (2nd iterationn)

Robin Cracknell - graphic design (festival-run)


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Exposure:

2020 - Official selection - Blacksphere Festival, Javorník [CZ]

2020 - International Competition / Finalist - Frostbite International Indie Fest, online / US

2021 - Official selection - Sphere Festival: World Cinema Carnival, Kalkutta [IN]

2021 - I am alone with your thoughts, site-specific installation, duo show at VAGon - in(ter)disciplined space

2021 - Wholy Mother, group show at Strata Gallery, Bucharest [RO]

2021 - May amnesia scratch our membrane, group show at IOMO Gallery, Bucharest [RO]

2021 - International Competition / Semi-finalist - 180´Berlin Filmfest, Berlin [DE]

2022 - Official selection - Pebbles Underground Film and Video Art Festival, online

2022 - National Competition - BIEFF Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, Bucharest [RO]

2023 - Fluid, group show at Digital Canvas\, Timisoara [RO] / part of Timisoara2023 - European Capital of Culture

2023 - Official selection - Under_the_Radar, die angewandte - University of Applied Arts Vienna [AT]

2023 - Kinētechós, group show, Morphrame Pavilion at The Wrong Biennale / curator: Anna Utopia Giordano

2023 - Kinētechós Pavilion at Fuori Visioni 8 Contemporary Art Festival, Piacenza [IT]

2024 - Atelier Ouvert at Cité internationale des arts, Paris [FR]

First iteration: festival run / 2020

Second iteration: residency collab at Cité internationale des arts / 2024

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