Universal Objects: Park1

Tanja Vujinović (Ljubljana, Slovenia)

tanja.vujinovic@gmail.com : http://www.ultramono.org

ABSTRACT:

3D work in real time made within a game engine

Production: Ultramono, 2016

Park1 is a realtime 3D work built in a video game engine made for contemplative play and is filled with animistic and anthropomorphic data. Park, a work belonging to the Universal Objects series and similar to other works from the cycle, is made of excavations and interventions within the material infrastructure of the digital. It is a vast digital environment occupied by mutated digital objects. It is a contemplative environment made of fifteen different fields, thirteen “performative” houses, bots that perform rituals, and digital artworks for public space from the Universal Objects collection. Visitors can enjoy random walks, they can jog through the park, or systematically visit the whole park by observing one segment at a time.

DESCRIPTION:

Visitors use arrow keys, the shift key and space bar on a keyboard to move their avatar through digital space.

Materials needed for presentation of this work are any newer PC capable of playing mid-level computer games, and eventually computer can be connected to either projector or larger TV/monitor, and keyboard and mouse for navigation through work.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY:

Since 1997 Tanja Vujinović’s audio-visual works, digital prints and installations have been exhibited at numerous galleries and museums, such as the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, the Museum Kunst Palast in Düsseldorf, the Museum of Contemporary Art – Denver, Kunsthaus Meran, the Medienturm International Forum in Graz, the Cornerhouse Gallery in Manchester, the Istanbul Contemporary Art Museum, MMC Kibla Maribor and Kapelica Gallery in Ljubljana. Her works have been presented at festivals, such as ISEA2009, The 15th International Symposium on Electronic Art, Ars Electronica Linz, Kinetica Art Fair in London, the Spor Festival in Arhus, the Zeppelin Sound Art Festival in Barcelona, FILE – Electronic Language International Festival in Sao Paulo and FILE RIO in Rio de Janeiro, among others. She has also presented her work at events, such as the Madrid Abierto in Madrid, Euroscreen21 at various locations, Continental Breakfast in Maribor, and Nuit Blanche in Paris. She has presented her Internet-based works as part of the Ctheory Multimedia’s NetNoise, the Web Biennial Istanbul, Helium by Ballongmagasinet and NIFCA, and Sinnlos WebArt.

She graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Belgrade in the year 1999 at the painting department and has been a guest student at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf. She also holds a Ph.D in Philosophy and Theory of Visual Culture from the Faculty of Humanities Koper.