Siphon:Sys:Apparatus 1.1Marko Batista (SI)

Mixed media installation / instrument, 2010 - 2013

Imagine the space where flush systems enter sonic turbulence and open a hybrid valve allowing portable sound objects to flow into the schizophrenic bowl, containing a sonic mechanism that closes the apparatus and opens a high frequency piping system for a very brief period of time. In Siphon:Sys:Apparatus 1.1 Marko Batista continues his research into the phenomenology of sonic structures, using the siphon as a vehicle and networked abstraction as an instrument of sonic perception or tool of comprehension. The exhibition installation features parallel non-linear sound compositions based on several electronic elements trapped in the circuits of a siphon system apparatus associated with unconventional sonic results. The technology-driven mixed media installation focuses on audio experiments that through the subversion of simultaneous sonic data transfers and heterogeneous piping environments enter the field of artistic intervention.

If you look at the side of many modern toilets, you can actually see the outline of the siphon conduit. The siphon is an example of a natural and extremely simple machine that we take advantage of daily. Space toilet noise control room ejects micro-perforated bags which are stored in an aluminum container and imports the height of the upper leg dictating the static frequency level in the bowl. When the distorted sound flush valve is opened, the sound object flows from the tank into the bowl, the frequency level rises, and the sound object begins to flow into the lower piping system. Once the module is completely polluted, the siphon system becomes a true sound machine that ends with a sucking sound when the tank is empty.

Marko Batista (SI)

Marko Batista (1976) is a Ljubljana based tech-mixed-media artist, sound researcher, video experimentalist and AV performer, born in in Tito’s Yugoslavia. Batista focuses on themes such as displaced soundscapes, video transformation processes, networking data, collaboration, linking concepts, hybrid spaces, politics of art and other fields of contemporary media art. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana and attained a Master of Fine Arts degree from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London. Batista is a founding member of the experimental multimedia group Klon:Art:Resistance.

Nowadays he works mainly independently, although he is involved in collaboration with various artists and experts on specific projects. His works have been regularly shown in Slovenia (Aksioma, Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana; Kibla, Maribor; MMC Pina, Koper…) and presented worldwide as part of the 50th Venice Biennial, 2003; 10th International Istanbul Biennial, 2007; Featured Art Scene/Kapelica Gallery at Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, 2008; Cellsbutton#3 – International Media Art Festival, Indonesia, 2008; Zero Gallery/Transmediale, Berlin, 2009; Share Festival, Torino, 2010; Netaudio Festival, London, 2011; Mochvara Gallery@Pogon Jedinstvo, Zagreb, 2012.

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