Video installation Introspection composed of three video installations/projections and sound.
The installations Kaleidoscopic Gaze and Spiral Floating are based on digitally- processed radiological images of my brain activity while contemplating Duchamp’s Anemic Cinema, which was conceived as an optic dispositive inducing a four-dimensional spatial-temporal perceptive experience in the viewer (by alternating the concave and convex effects of spiral swirling). The kaleidoscopic pattern of the video aims to similarly expand the viewer’s perception and consciousness; the repetitive, hypnotic pattern of light projected onto the image reflected by a mirror produces a layering of fractally-fragmented reflections, that is, a virtual multi-dimensional space in motion. (Source: Uršula Berlot)
Kaleidoscopic Gaze: video projection onto an image on a mirror (video loop 6′), variable dimensions
two mirrors (90 x 180 cm; 90 x 110 cm), foil covering
projection and reflected light, sound: Scanner – Robin Rimbaud
Spiral Floating: video projection onto a semitransparent screen (video loop 6′), variable dimensions,
two Plexiglass screens (110 x 130 cm), foil covering, projection and reflected light
sound: Scanner – Robin Rimbaud
The video installation Butterfly uses radiological images of the author’s brain responding to different colors. The image of a butterfly changing colors is formed by a light reflection of a video that is being projected onto a horizontal image on a mirror. It alludes to the concept of the “butterfly effect”, which in chaos theory posits that slight, even infinitesimally small variations in the initial conditions of a dynamic system may produce extreme and unpredictable results in other space and time coordinates: that a butterfly flapping its wings could set off a hurricane on the other side of the planet. The shape on the mirror is a graphically processed image of my brain; the butterfly reflection is a metaphor for the power of our “invisible” thoughts, our emotions, our so-called mental worlds, conscious or unconscious, that keep changing the physical reality surrounding us. Butterfly deals with the interconnectedness of the visible and the invisible and questions the causal relations between the perceptible and the intelligible.
video projection onto an image on a mirror (video loop, 3′)
mirror (110 x 110 cm), foil covering, projection and reflected light
variable dimensions
sound composition: Scanner – Robin Rimbaud
(Source: Uršula Berlot)
Production: 2017
The video works on two levels of microscopic observation: the first line of recordings shows the transformation of a non-living (inorganic) substance from one physical state to another – namely, the process of crystallization, which involves the tra...
Production: Uršula Berlot, 2017
Video created for the track Cast to the Bottom from the album The Great Crater by Scanner (Glacial Movements, 2017). Composed of landscape 3d digital simulation and digitally processed video recordings, the video shows a virtual journey through an imagina...
Production: Uršula Berlot, 2017
The round-shaped form in the process of constant transformation is based on the idea of simulating life at the molecular level. The structure which periodically resembles a virus structure, complex proteins or carbon fullerenes, is being decomposed, trans...
Production: Uršula Berlot, 2016
The sound-kinetic diorama submerged within and enhanced by the audio environment observed through an opening in the surface of a crystal-shaped object imitates the structural makeup of carbon nanotubes visible through a microscope. A hub of tubes creates...
Production: Uršula Berlot, 2014-2016
A miniature silver landscape in motion that can be viewed through the observation perforation in the surface of a cristal-like object is based on the photographs of magnetic fluids that served as the basis for digital model development and the resulting 3D...
Production: Uršula Berlot, 2014
The recording of dynamic forms of magnetic fluids that are produced by invisible magnetic fields directs the experience of the material in relation to the immaterial. The ferrofluid structures, which are in reality only a few centimeters in height, being...
Production: Uršula Berlot, 2012
Light-kinetic installation; turntable, silver plating plexiglass dim. 70 x 90 cm, light reflections variable dimensions sound: Scanner – Robin Rimbaud.
Production: Uršula Berlot, 2012
The repeated kaleidoscopic video was created on the basis of X-ray image of a spine and projected back over the original radiological image printed on aluminum support. Such projection creates layering, a kind of spatial superposition into a repetitive hy...
Production: Uršula Berlot, 2012
Kaleidoskopski video temelji na radioloških posnetkih avtoričinih možganov. Posnetek nevronskih povezav, ki jih prikazuje traktografija (difuzijska MRI) je računalniško prezrcaljen in projiciran na dve vzporedni plošči pleksi stek...
Production: Uršula Berlot, 2012
Video Vanitas – Self-portrait presents a hypnotic image of the continuous dissolution of the author’s face, skull, and brain. The repetitive liquefying interplay between the exterior and the technologically-visualized exterior posits the quest...
Production: Uršula Berlot, 2007
The video combines medical recordings of the brain and computer manipulation of those images. This animated image becomes symmetrical and dehumanized. We get a completely abstract arena, which reminds us of outer space. The author's cerebral area becomes...