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== The Man And The Ocean / Der Mensch und das Meer - English Description== | == The Man And The Ocean / Der Mensch und das Meer - English Description== | ||
'' | ''“It's glorious, to be in an infinite solitude at the sea shore under cloudy skies and to look out at the unlimited desert of the sea” (Heinrich von Kleist)”'' | ||
The Man and the Ocean are facing each other. The Night is falling and the waves are sweeping. The mighty, gray-violet, almost non structural sky is getting darker and darker. In Relation to his environment and the overwhelming Spectacle of Nature the man seems to be little, lonely and void. | The Man and the Ocean are facing each other. The Night is falling and the waves are sweeping. The mighty, gray-violet, almost non structural sky is getting darker and darker. In Relation to his environment and the overwhelming Spectacle of Nature the man seems to be little, lonely and void. | ||
“The Man and The Ocean” deals with the interaction between man and machine respectively media. If anyone enters the space in which the installation takes place and stays for more than five seconds a little man starts to appear in the videoimage, walks next to the sea and stays there as long as the beholder takes his time to watch the video. | |||
'''The three following .gif-files show the three states of the videoimage:''' | '''The three following .gif-files show the three states of the videoimage:''' | ||
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[[Media:MenschundMeer.gif]]<br> | [[Media:MenschundMeer.gif]]<br> | ||
The work is based on a written academic essay on | The work is based on a written academic essay on “Rezeptionsästhetik”. The aesthetic of reception is a former theory by the literature that made its way to the science of art. It deals with the function and position of a beholder. The idea is: The function of a beholder is defined by any artwork itself. | ||
A human beholder inside a picture was used a lot in the romantic painting. In particular to show the dignity of nature compared to man. One famous painting showing this is David Caspers Friedrich's work “The Monk By The Sea”. | A human beholder inside a picture was used a lot in the romantic painting. In particular to show the dignity of nature compared to man. One famous painting showing this is David Caspers Friedrich's work “The Monk By The Sea”. | ||
“The Man and The Ocean” reenacts and recreates this situation in an interactive digital context where the experience of nature and its dignity meets. | |||
[[Media:2013 03 31 MenschundMeer 1.0.zip]] A link to the audio | [[Media:2013 03 31 MenschundMeer 1.0.zip]] A link to the audio and video files for this setup and a video documentation will be added soon. | ||