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DOGS II

(video / TV-set / PureData [pd] GEM)

Whose side are you on? from Enkidu rankX on Vimeo.

"Whose side are you on?" supposes a couple having sex, deeply disliking each other. Both have grown tired of their respective attitudes towards their relationship and deeply distrust one another. But subsequently, they fail in telling the other about their feelings and needs and stay frozen in a state of hate and disgust.

It is the second film of a series specially dealing in relational miscommunication called “DOGS”. Part one of the series is called “Her Dog” and is available on this site.

The film sample is taken from Larry Cohen 1972 Blaxploitation milestone Black Caesar starring Fred Williamson and Gloria Hendry. I filmed it off a monitor, then re-treated it in PureData [pd] and GEM.

The Song “Whose side are you on?” by MK_ultra is featuring Yola Icho as “her” and Enkidu rankX as “him”.

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Wer nichts leistet, der soll auch…

(video / TV-set / notebook)

Prolog 5 Dokumentation from Enkidu rankX on Vimeo.

(he who does not work, shall not...)

Wenn also ∆W = 0 ist, sind ∆U und ∆Q auch 0 und U und Q bleiben unverändert.
If ∆W = 0, then ∆U und ∆Q are also 0 and U and Q stay unchanged.

Mehr Informationen unter: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamik
For further information, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamics

notebook entry

This installation deals with the subject of virtuality vs. reality. The installtion was shown during the Prolog 5 exhibition in Berlin in the fall of 2009.

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Her Dog! (DOGS I)

(PureData - real time capture)

Her Dog! from Enkidu rankX on Vimeo.

"Her Dog!" deals with mistrust in a relationship and how people use surrogate animal partners to overcome their solitude. The video shows a quasi uteral situation / space (to be navigated with a joystick in real time) and a swarm of sperms floating in it, steadily following the small white dot that is the ovum. This dot / ovum is controlled either by mouse or by computer vision motion tracking – the swarm will follow it, but never reach. This symbolizes the fruitless efforts of a couple to have children - fruitless because the male part in it refuses to procreate. Subsequently the woman argues: "if you don't make me a child, I'll have a dog".

But after a certain amount of time, the woman gets bored, and the man is left to care about the pet he (also) never wanted. This is the basis for his angry monologue spoken during the film.

The film was recorded live with music; speech was added later on, as well as titles and fades. This installation made in PureData / Gem (augmented by boids algorithm and openCV) is to be used in real time - the film is for documentation purposes.

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island of life in a sea of death

(PureData / Gem - Projection mapping installation - real-time)

Island of life in a sea of death [fast] from Enkidu rankX on Vimeo.

The project "island of life in a sea of death" deals with the briefness of life and the process of aging (and subsequently dying) which cannot be seen directly but observed only at certain intervals in time. You will be unable to watch yourself grow older in a glance at a mirror, but when you look at yourself after a certain period of time, you will then notice: you have aged! So this projection mapping installation augments reality by allowing this process to be noticed when carefully observed.

Real-time installation by Enkidu rankX [puredata / GEM] in the Galerie Parterre Berlin during the exhibition "Prolog IV" curated by Anton Schwarzbach. It is a speeded up version of the gradual ageing process which lasts about 5.30min in the real-world-time...

The Installation is accompanied by the experimental music piece "my real step #1" by MK_utra.

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The Rift series

A set of 9 short films produced as DVD for MK_ultra's CD album: "The Rift"