Test Lab is a performance that emerges as sound documentation of two author's practices: collecting electronic waste and hacking the collected material, and collaborating with chemists in the process of separating gold from computer electronic waste. As an analogy to the sampling process, experiments and various attempts at the laboratory and the studio, samples of sound are collected for this performance. The sound of short circuits, electromagnetic signals and ready-made electronics are brought into the relationship with the sounds of chemical reactions and treatment of contact microphones with various acids. The noise of discarded electronics and destructive processes suggests the opposite - waste being brought to life and the constant change of substances.
Test LabTin Dožić (HR)
performance, 2018, duration 25 minutes
Tin Dožić (HR)
Tin Dožić (b. 1989, Rijeka) holds a degree in psychology from the University Department of Croatian Studies in Zagreb (2016) and another one from the Department of Animation and New Media of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb (2016). His work is based on exploration of media. His fields of interest include the materiality of media, (dark) ecology, the DIY culture, the Anthropocene and geology, dreams, and the convergence of science and art. His work Songs for the Anthropocene won the Golden Watermelon Award at the Media Mediterranea Festival in Pula in 2018. He was a Radoslav Putar Award finalist in 2019 and is an alumnus of the WHW Academy in 2019/2020. As a member of the artistic team comprised of Sven Sorić (visual identity), Hrvoje Spudić (visual identity), Sara Salamon (video animation) and himself on sound design, he won the Best Young Artist Award at the 55th Zagreb Salon – Applied Art and Design (2020), for the visual identity of the 30th Music Biennial Zagreb.
