Invited by LASA, both Czech and German artists Michael Bielicky and Kamila Richter presented a video in St. Augustine. This work is inspired by Falling Times, "a permanent machine translation, increased real-time accounting news constantly appearing and disappearing information about our times, and at the same time, the decline of our decadent Western civilization "(source and more information: http://www.fallingtimes.info/ )
artists choose a building at the site where guests and a parallel search wireless Internet connection . Based on various keywords related to various themes present in sources of information on the Web, the program becomes graphic interpretations. That projection is the real-time graphical translation of the content of information in cyberspace.
Pictograms they simulate a waterfall, giving a print to drop all these symbols of Western society flooding almost every space available, both private and public. Each graph is encouraged in addition to its default motion down. The profusion of symbols and animations create a hyper stimulation eye, creating a confusion, amplified by an opposite feeling of relaxation and mesmerizing causing this downward movement. In the midst of disorder of perception, the public is interpreting each symbol and have the opportunity to shoot with the mouse on the pictures for eliminate or multiply, depending on the course of the Stock Exchange.
In St. Augustine, curator of the project LASA, Aurélie Sampeur invited the two artists to present their work on a building was built for physicians. After serving a mission for several years in countries cooperating with Cuba, these medical professionals have the right, in an apartment for his family. These buildings were first built in 2000 after 20 years without changing the distribution planning. Are then symbol of contemporaneity and the development of the country as well as social success of a part of the population through their work outside the country. Doctors bring the world news and experiences that are not always known in Cuba. embody a kind of globalization of services through the controlled export of their brains in the country.
The building chosen for the projection of the work of Michael Bielicky and Kamila Richter is located in a cross Street principal cast, allowing a wide and diverse audience of passersby on foot and motorized as well as passenger bus passing by this place by chance they saw the work. As the wireless Internet connection in Cuba is almost nonexistent, the speed and density information are much slower and lower in the Island than in most other countries, artists adapted "Falling Times" . This time, instead of having a graphic translation of the information circulating on the Internet in real time, chose to advance the main themes that are present in cyberspace and graphic interpretations appeared randomly on the facade of the building. They also included some elements Cubans, such as geographical locations and political persons in the country.
After Sao Paulo, Berlin, New York and other cosmopolitan places, centers of geopolitics, partner of Czech-German artists had the opportunity to confront his job a kind of public context and, presumably, other codes, since information flows with different pace on the island but apparently had no bystanders no problem recognizing the major themes of our planet not identify with them, proof that we live in a world where global information is present in every corner of our lives without physical and political boundaries.
