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Thomas Bernhard Day & Enslaved ornament

During my final presentation I've presented progress of my two projects:
 

Thomas Bernhard Day

Work is a recipe for a procession / performance that is based on six steps used in contemporary research on emotion recognition in neuroscience. It is a procedure that it's input data are fictional characters of the "Verstörung" novel by Thomas Bernhard. During six steps, using EEG device and interpretation methods combined with
computer software, recipe is able to generate profiles for other fictional characters from the activity of the limbic system (in particular: hippocampus and amygdala) confronted / stimulated by the fictional characters of "Verstörung" novel. It is a work that deals with the phenomenon of brain plasticity and its ability for changing itself. The main goal is to grasp this phenomenon "in action". To do that recpie is designed to be auto-affective, to be able to change itself after every execution.

For my semester project I would like to deposite printed recipe with the detailed description and theoretical work in the library of Research Institute of Wildlife Ecology in Vienna and in AKH General Hospital in Vienna so the recipe can be found and used in any time in the future. This two institutions grasps world of the "Verstörung" novel, divided into the tragic struggle between human need for fighting entropy and the forces of wild nature.

Enslaved ornament

Work isa try to make phenomenon of entropy visible. To visualize moment of becoming invisible. In cooperation with the chemist (mgr. Monika Koperska) from the Clinique of Paper in the Library of Jagiellonian University in Kraków we are trying develop substance that is able to decompose paper to the degree of being invisible. Object sunken in the substance is a collage in the form of an ornament which is made of my personal photographs taken during first weeks in Vienna in 2010. Form of an ornament is alive only in movement, when it is repeating itself - in my work this movement is stopped: object of memory is disappearing slowly until it vanishes. Since now I've been working with Schweizer's reagent and hydrochloric acid.

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Thomas Bernhard Day & Enslaved ornament
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Date
January 30, 2014