NeMAF2025

광학 음향 Optical Sound

SCREENINGS

08.06 (Sat) 17:00 한국영상자료원
08.09 (Tue) 15:30 한국영상자료원

DESCRIPTION

기계가 음악을 연주할 수 있을까? 도트 매트릭스 프린터와 턴테이블 사이는 어떻게 다를까? <광학 음향>은 ‘디 아더'가 구식 프린터로 만든 브루탈리즘적 음향 작품을 영상으로 새롭게 번역한다.

Do machines play music? Is there a difference between a dot matrix printer and a record turntable? Optical Sound, Taanila’s 2005 wide-screen interpretation of The Other’s brutalist sound piece for an array of obsolete printers, depicts the devices ratcheting horizontally together in a stalled symphony, inkjets repeatedly blackening the same area on the page. A digital breakdown of an analogue effect. It was computer scientist Ray Tomlinson, responsible for establishing the first electronic mail delivery between two machines back in 1972, who chose the @ sign as part of an email address. He was looking for a character that could not conceivably appear in the computer user’s name. Taanila’s film fills the entire screen with scratchy inscriptions of this sign, which is now rapidly becoming a part of every individual identity. It’s not the blurring of man with machine that lies at the core of this film, but the blurring of the spaces that each has been traditionally obliged to occupy. We disappear into our data streams, which are everywhere and ‘nowhere’ at the same time.

미카 타닐라

1965년 출생. 미카 타닐라는 핀란드 헬싱키에서 활동하는 영화감독이자 비주얼 아티스트이다. 그는 다큐멘터리, 실험 영화 그리고 비주얼 아트 작품 활동을 한다. 인간 공학, 유토피아, 그리고 인간-기계는 그의 작품들에서 자주 보이는 주제들이다. 타닐라의 작품은 아이치 트리엔날레 (2013), 상하이 비엔날레(2006), 베를린 비엔날레(2004) 등과 같은 국제적인 단체 전시회에서 선보였다. 개인 전시회는 헬싱키 키아스마 현대 미술관 (2013-14), 세인트루이스 현대 미술관 (2013) 등에서 열었다. 그의 단편 영화들은 300여 이상의 국제 영화 페스티벌에서 상영되었으며, 2015년에는 핀란드에서 가장 권위 있는 얼스 페니카 상을 받았다.

Mika TAANILA

Mika Taanila (s. 1965) is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Helsinki, Finland. He works with documentaries, experimental film and visual arts. Human engineering, utopias, failures and man-machines are recurring themes in his films and installations. Taanila’s works have been shown at major international group shows, such as Aichi Triennale (2013), dOCUMENTA (2012), Shanghai Biennale (2006), Berlin Biennale (2004), Manifesta (2002) and Istanbul Biennial (2001). Solo shows include the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki (2013–14), Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2013), TENT, Rotterdam (2013) and Galleria Heino, Helsinki (2010). Taanila’s short films have been screened altogether at more than 300 international film festivals and special events. In 2015, Taanila was awarded with the prestigious Ars Fennica Award, the biggest Finnish art award.