G8Martina Mezak (HR)

Interactive installation, 2008

The interactive installation G8 deals with the possibility of achieving the ideal society. Possibilities of e-utopia are given by 8 young women educated in 8 basic areas of social life. The name of the installation, G8 refers to the summit of the 8 economically most powerful countries. The name also refers to the interactive G-spot in a female.

Eight virtual women in a gallery create fatigue and if a button on the object over which they flow is pressed, they become the carriers of possible realizations of utopia scenarios. To think about the possibilities of achieving an ideal community appears naive and causes a gap because of the history and state of our civilization. Any thought of the possibilities of creating an ideal community seems naïve and excites repugnance, when the history and current state of our civilization is considered. But the utopian spirit is still present, and not only in theory, but also practically in our society, taking the form of, for example, ecological and antiglobalising activism. Critical involvement with the existing social systems and social relations is a spur to the realization not only of the positive potentials of humanity, but the accomplishment of survival itself.

Project participants: Sandra Hudina (ecology), Jasmina Music ( physics), Dijana Pendelic (economy), Vesna Pezelj (sociology), Cvijeta Senta (politology), Natalija Tripalo (philosophy), Tihana Vukošić (medicine), Martina Mezak (culture).
Interaction and sound: Marko Štefan Poljak

Martina Mezak (HR)

Martina Mezak is a multimedia artist, born in Zagreb in 1973. She founds her work on multidisciplinary research work in the field of technology, science and art directed towards the transcendence of the conscious. She is most into interactive audio and visual installations and multimedia objects. She has exhibited at a number of individual and group exhibitions in Croatia and abroad (PM Gallery, HDLU, Zagreb; Device_art 3.009, Zagreb/Tokyo; Device_ art 2.006, Zagreb/Belgrade/San Francisco; Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea).

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