2015, 1:06 min., camera: Ladislav Tejml
Documentation of an interactive human/machine performance. Pitches of the guitar tones control the playback of a video featuring Steina Vasulka, controlling a robotic maiden with her MIDI bow. The original video made with the courtesy of the National Gallery of Iceland in Reykjavík. Created at the Vasulka Chamber, Reykjavík, on May 14th, 2015.
Slávo Krekovič (1977) is a musician, sound artist, musicologist, contemporary music and new media art curator, cultural organiser and non-profit activist. He is an organiser and curator of experimental music and multimedia events, including the annual NEXT Festival of Advanced Music (since 2000) and Multiplace: New Media Culture Network Festival (since 2002). He is Deputy Director and Music Curator at the independent cultural centre A4 in Bratislava that he co-founded in 2004. Slávo Krekovič studied in Bratislava, Prague, Vienna, New York and The Hague and holds an MA and a PhD degree in musicology. In 2019 he graduated from the Institute of Sonology in The Hague. From 2013 through 2017, he was the Head of the Multimedia Studio and Lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts (FaVU) of Brno University of Technology. In 2017, he was also teaching at Musicology Department at Comenius University in Bratislava.