Prokop Bartoníček – Vibrator

seen during CYNETART 2011 exhibition
Seitenbühne Ost, FSH Hellerau

Vibrator is an interactive artwork created by Prokop Bartoníček. This data visualisation device incarnates the beauty of CYNETART 2011 information streamings. The beauty in that case is beauty we perceive in the digital space. “The beauty of feelings, ideas and curves of bodies” as the artist describes it himself. With the idea of beauty there is the notion of pleasure coming along. An association that drives the expedition/research for digital definition of beauty to pornography. The Vibrator is connected to world’s busiest porn server, that stimulates its activity. A fully sensual experience.

Anonymous, global mass interest in pornography on the internet has inspired me in my work to focus on individuals' solitary pursuit of pleasure and beauty. In the piece, the art-object is connected to the busiest porn site in the world. The art-object vibrates and lights up according to the number of viewers that the site's most popular video sequences receive. The anonymous mass interest of users from across the entire globe is thus concentrated into an object normally intended for a single individual's pleasure. Approximately every ten seconds the art-object receives new information and changes its activity accordingly. If the viewership increases rapidly then the vibrations of the art-object also increase at a corresponding frequency and intensity. In the event of a decline of viewership, then the vibrational pulses of the art-object subside at an equivalent rate.

www.prokopbartonicek.com
Galerie bei Flickr

Tags: 2011, CYNETart, CYNETART2011, Installation