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All media exist to invest our lives with artificial perceptions and arbitrary values. ~ Marshall McLuhan

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2001/2002

Mark Hansen, Ben Rubin, Listening Post

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Mark Hansen, Ben Rubin, Listening Post

1967

Josef Svoboda, Polyvision

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Montreal, 1967

Josef Svoboda, Polyecran

Svobodas Polyecran was a very fascinating audio-visual experience which was presented during the Expo 1967 in Montreal. One entered a large room and sat on the carpeted floor where you watched a wall of 112 cubes whose ever shifting and changing images moved backwards and forwards. Inside each cube were two Kodak Carousel slide projectors which projected still photos onto the front of the cubes. In all there were 15,000 slides in the 11 minute show. Since each cube could slide into three separate positions within a two foot range, they gave the effect of a flat surface turning into a three-dimensional surface and back again. It was completely controlled by 240 miles of memory circuitry which was encoded onto a filmstrip with 756,000 separate instructions.

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Montreal, 1967

Josef Svoboda, Polyecran

Viewers watched a wall of 112 projected cubes while seated on the floor. The show was about The Creation of the World of Man. On the 112 part screen, the earth came awake, flowers bloomed, tigers suddenly appeared, the first men walked the earth, then machinery was invented. Sometimes the image sequences would first appear complete, then be broken up abstractly in a modern art composition. It was pure multi-visual technique that enchanted the viewer.

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Montreal, 1967

Josef Svoboda, Polyecran

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Montreal, 1967

Josef Svoboda, Polyecran

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Villa Olmo, Como, 1957

Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Colori e forme nella casa d'oggi (Colors and Forms in Today's Home)

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In 1957 the exhibition "Colori e forme nella casa d'oggi" (Colors and Forms in Today's Home) was mounted at the Villa Olmo in Como, where Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni presented their vision of a modern lifestyle. This was a colorful jumble of styles that incorporated old and new furnishings instead of uniformly styled interiors.

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At the Villa Olmo Pier Giacomo and Achille Castiglioni first showed their readymade designs. "Mezzadro" a stool consisting of a tractor seat mounted on a substructure and "Sella", a telephone stool featuring a bicycle seat, were not made by Zanotta until years later.