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 Kati Rubinyi Figure/Ground USA 2000, 13'31" The subject of the piece is Nolli’s 1748 figure/ground map of Rome. The extremely accurate, entirely black and white map was commissioned by Clement XII partly to serve as an instrument of control over the city. Nolli’s inventive map-making strategy was to show all public spaces in white and private inacessible spaces in black. The Nolli map, as it’s known, was the result of seven years of measuring and recording by a group of surveyors. The video deals with the disjuncture between the touristic nature of the act of mapping and the resulting map. The video is made up of a series of still photographs taken along a route at even intervals of around fifteen feet with the camera pointing straight up at the cornice lines of buildings. The route – from the Baroque Piazza of S. Ignazio down a street and into the Pantheon, inside the Pantheon and around it – is photographed with a 35mm camera. The photos are printed in black and white, the resulting images reminiscent of the Nolli map. The photographs are scanned and digitally animated to a rhythm that give the effect of walking. Instead of the ground being the subject of the view, the path of travel isalong the cornice lines and sky. Kati Rubinyi. Born in Montreal in 1964, Kati is currently a Masters student in Fine Art at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. She is a licensed architect with a degree in Philosophy from Concordia University and an Architecture degree from the University of Waterloo. Since 1991 she has been doing projects that fall outside the realm of conventional architectural practice starting with an artist's book and installation made for her architecture school thesis and continuing after graduation with the video piece "Figure/Ground" about the Nolli Map of Rome of 1748. Recent projects, "Go North to Riga" (1999) - an installation, and "The History of Stereo" (1999) - based on Morse code guided flight during WWII, deal with the issue of user-freedom and instructions to the participant in interactive media-art. Her current project, "The Gambit" is an interactive, site-specific animation, presented on a palm-sized computer attached to a digital compass and headphones, in which the participant moves around the lobby of a downtown Los Angeles hotel prompted by changing photographs and spoken-word. Her final MFA project will be an installation about Pompeii using poster-sized images, Plexiglas models, and live birds in a special enclosure. Her goal is to continue to make artwork and to build housing in an architect/developer capacity. |
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