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Marlena Novak &
localStyle (Netherlands)
Jay Alan Yim
curator Ottica TV
co-curators Paul Malone
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The collaborative localStyle was founded in 2000 in Amsterdam by Marlena
Novak (visuals) and Jay Alan Yim (audio). Using low and high tech means, their
works are motivated by the ways that individuals gather and process information
about social, political and physical environments, exploring how thresholds
and boundaries are constructed, interpreted, and ultimately, negotiated.
Their intermedia works have been presented internationally in museum, gallery,
and alternative venues, exploring themes as varied as the mating behavior
of hermaphroditic flatworms, boundaries relating to plate tectonics and politics,
issues of trespass, and the sonification of a choir of electric fish from the Amazon
river basin.
www.localstyle.tv
Edge Detection refers to the way that neurons in the brain – and computer soware
– have developed the capability to identi border conditions in the external world,
regardless of which sensory mode we use. It is the first critical step in making sense
of our experiences.
Our interviewees shared their views on boundaries they perceive as affecting their
daily lives, work, creative aspirations, emotional and intellectual outlook, sense of society,
and the environment they inhabit. This excerpt features two human rights activists,
Lin McDevitt-Pugh, co-founder of KnowHow Projects, and Martha McDevitt-Pugh,
founder of Love Exiles Foundation; they live in exile in order to have basic human rights.
Four other interviews comprise the complete series of Edge Detection.
Marlena Novak
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2010 Visioni Dal Futuro: Mondi Iridescenti, Torino, IT (group) / Ottica Contemporary TV, Bankside Centre,
London, UK (group) / 2009 Polderlicht 5, Amsterdam Oost-Watergraafsmeer, NL (group) / Magyar Mühely
Galéria, Budapest, HU (solo) / Musica Nova Consort, Tel Aviv, IL, live electronic music+video performance
(group) / 2008 Digital Media Valencia 1.0, Valencia, ES (group) / Experimental Intermedia, New York,
US (group) / 2006 estacion ARTE, Mexico City, MX (solo) / 2004 Sony Center am Potsdamer Platz,
DAM Digital Art Museum, Berlin, DE (group) / 2003 Mondriaanhuis, Museum for Constructive
and Concrete Art, Amersfoort, NL (group)
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Edge Detection, 2008
HD video, size variable, 16/9 ratio on screen