vabavärss (test pattern)

     

 

aj

ASCII JESUS SUPERSTAR (original print. Center for Computer Sciences, Dept. of Mathematics, Tartu University, pre-PC computer/ascii art wave in Soviet Union, late 1970s. 42x82 cm, framed)

 

SCRATCH MEEL (scanner scratch. digital print on canvas, 70x100 cm. physical manipulation of concrete poetry piece with I's and 0's by Raul Meel. modernist tower of knowledge has become chaotic flow of information)



8BIT VINT (book scan, resized. 8bit remix of epic-psychedelic-metaphysical illustration by Aili Vint, from an artist book about colors for children (1979). pictures in pictures, windows, doors etc in soviet art should not be understood in the means of escapist explorations of mind but in context of cultural isolation and arbitrary bits of information.)

 

tl

Timbu-Limbu (canonical recomposition. extraordinary flash glam book, an artificial fairy-tale with illustrations & design by Villu Järmut, 1979.)

 

tl

Timbu-Limbu haunted (scanner scratch. analogue>digital conversion)

 

av

Anne Veski 2.0 (0nly effect of the soviet occupation - a superpopstar. (warholised. Anne Veski - estrada singer, symbol of post-’73 crisis bourgeois popcore-happiness, the pride of nation, still extremely popular in Russia. Warhol's cliche quotes become freakin' psyched in this decontext.)



ak

Sven & Kaarel (first progressive rock-group leader and only consistent sound artist in Soviet Estonia, painting)

vv

Vello Vinn (databending)

 

noot

haunted melody (scanner scratch)


re

regatta 80 (collage. flood of epic yet poetic imagery)


ol

Simon Simonet (film still, reworked, wrong subtitle, film still from Soviet Estonian cult sci-fi movie Dead Mountaineer's Hotel)

leis psych out (based on malle leis. digital.)

 

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