The Bubble
Långström Minna
The Bubble is Minna Långström's interactive media installation about the ambivalence of western lifestyle in a world torn by war. Visitors enter an enlarged nursery where they can blow digital bubbles and listen to the music box hanging from the roof. But each time they blow a bubble, they are also downloading an extremely violent video from the Internet. The videos from the resulting archive are shown inside the bubbles on the screen.
Production Year
2004
Tyyppi
Asiasana
children's rooms, conflict, crises, installations (works of art), interactive art, interactivity, media, media art, media criticism, media environment, media installations, violence (activity), warfare
Original Title
Kupla
Finnish Title
Kupla
English Title
The Bubble
Production Countries
Finland
Dialogue
No
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Sound
Yes
Cast
Minna Långström (Author), Emi Maeda (Composer), Minna Långström (Director), Minna Långström (3d Animation), Minna Långström (Concept), AVEK (Funder), Svenska Kulturfonden (Funder), Juha Vehviläinen (Programming), Minna Långström (Video)
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Långström is a media artist and filmmaker. Her artistic work consists of films – short fiction and documentary – as well as cinematic installations, combining moving images with spatial elements. Her work processes tend to be extensive, well researched and interdisciplinary. Her work focuses on social perspectives on technologically mediated narratives and visual technologies, as well as certain political histories and their cinematic influences on the present. The intuitive experience and role of the viewer is a central aspect of her installations.
13 works