beeoff.se
A real time
web and video work, online from Feb 23 until Mar 15 2004
web presentation http://inflict.beeoff.se
(best with 1024x768 resolution and flash)
INFLICT was presented as a part of the [R][R][F] 2004 [Remembering-Repressing-Forgetting]
- a global networking project created and developed by Agricola de Cologne.
www.newmediafest.org/rrf2004
The work was also streamed at nonTVTVstation www.splintermind.com
A part of the INFLICT project was produced and presented at the Society for
Arts and Technology in Montréal.
www.sat.qc.ca
Inflict was a part of the project RRF curated by Wilfred Agricola de Cologne.
The project consisted of several real-time projects simultaneously screened
at the National Museum of contemporary Art in Bukarest, Romania, Bergen Electronic
Arts Centre in Bergen, Norway and at MAF04 New Media Art Festival in Bangkok,
Thailand.
The project theme was memory and identity, a theme with several complicated discussions. We build our identity on our own achieved experiences and on collectively ones – the history. Everything we experience form our identity and the surroundings, our culture, our country, city, neighbourhood are formed of what is going on at the moment and what has been going on.
Focusing on our private memories. How do they look like? Are they fragments or larger views? Are they static and objective or do our memories change according when they are merged together with other memories and experiences?
There were two parts in the Beeoff piece Inflict. One was produced at SAT in Montreal by one of the Beeoff artists who was staying there as an artist in residence the spring of 2004. Another part was produced in the Splintermind studio in Stockholm in Sweden. Every day of the Inflict project a short film was produced in Montreal on the identity theme while a performance was made in Stockholm on the memory theme where photographs, ink drawings and artefacts were combined. The performance was video taped daily and the documentation was added as layers on the real-time image. The result was that the broadcast image became more and more blurred when new layers was added. It also meant that it was difficult to see what was real-time and what was recorded previously. Now and past was mixed to something not visible. On top of that the short films from Montreal was added.
Inflict show on how something we think we remember clearly and we think we
have an objective view on changes all the time. In our memories colours change
and different accidents and persons are mixed up to a subjective image of
the past or perhaps a distorted reflection of ourselves. And here lays the
complicated connection between memory and identity.