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'''kinema ikon''' is the oldest ongoing experimental art group in Romania. It was founded in [[1970]] as a multimedia atelier at the art school in [[Arad]] and is currently hosted by the Arad's History Museum and Art Museum. More than forty years of existence are the result of an optimal equilibrium between the participative, collaborative or group projects, and the individual works. Something between the satisfaction of the collective creation and the satisfaction of the auctorial egotism. Therefore, the stylistic mark of kinema ikon occurs from the interdisciplinary approach of a certain medium (film, video, hypermedia) with the specific tools of the different fields its members are active in (artists, writers, architects, photographers, musicians, programmers, etc.)
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'''kinema ikon''' is the oldest active experimental art group in Romania. Founded in 1970 as a multimedia atelier at the art school in [[Arad]] it is currently hosted by the Arad's History Museum and Art Museum. More than forty years of existence are the result of an optimal equilibrium between the participative, collaborative or group projects, and the individual works. Something between the satisfaction of the collective creation and the satisfaction of the auctorial egotism. Therefore, the stylistic mark of kinema ikon occurs from the interdisciplinary approach of a certain medium (film, video, hypermedia) with the specific tools of the different fields its members are active in (artists, writers, architects, photographers, musicians, programmers, etc.)
  
 
==History==
 
==History==
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(Constantin Flondor, Stefan Bertalan, Roman Cotosman and Doru
 
(Constantin Flondor, Stefan Bertalan, Roman Cotosman and Doru
 
Tulcan) and Kinema Ikon, the circle of experimental film in Arad
 
Tulcan) and Kinema Ikon, the circle of experimental film in Arad
led by Ovidiu Sabäu. The first was intimately connected to a neo-con-
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led by George Săbău. The first was intimately connected to a  
structivist (Bauhaus-like) practice both in creation and teaching, while
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neo-constructivist (Bauhaus-like) practice both in creation and teaching, while
 
the second was a rather structuralist-borne implant in experimental
 
the second was a rather structuralist-borne implant in experimental
 
film-making. Although "sigma" was very well-known and held in
 
film-making. Although "sigma" was very well-known and held in
high esteem (even by the political establishment of the time), where-
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high esteem (even by the political establishment of the time),  
as Kinemalkon was barely known at all, pursuing its research in a
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whereas Kinema Ikon was barely known at all, pursuing its research in a
 
rather silent if not hidden manner, both groups shared, in the words of
 
rather silent if not hidden manner, both groups shared, in the words of
one of the "sigma" manifestoes, "the reconsideration of the environ-
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one of the "sigma" manifestoes, "the reconsideration of the  
ment as an object of artistic research" and they aimed, manifestly, at
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environment as an object of artistic research" and they aimed, manifestly, at
the development of an "intelligence able to adapt them to a future cul-
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the development of an "intelligence able to adapt them to a future  
ture" inescapably marked by "the development of an algorithmic cul-
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culture" inescapably marked by "the development of an algorithmic  
ture". Structures, frames, schemes, recurrent invariants, technical
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culture". Structures, frames, schemes, recurrent invariants, technical
 
manipulation, calculation, repetition and scientific-like insight were
 
manipulation, calculation, repetition and scientific-like insight were
 
the main marks of their aesthetic outlook. "Organizational" and
 
the main marks of their aesthetic outlook. "Organizational" and
meliorist, positivist and centripetal, highly "humanistic" in a contem-
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meliorist, positivist and centripetal, highly "humanistic" in a  
porary sense, such artistic endeavors are nonetheless stamped by that
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contemporary sense, such artistic endeavors are nonetheless stamped by that
profoundly Utopian drive of the historical avant-garde. Their unex-
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profoundly Utopian drive of the historical avant-garde. Their  
pressed goal was to regain a certain, "alternative transcendence" for
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unexpressed goal was to regain a certain, "alternative transcendence" for
 
our times, one that was believed to be controllable, science-based,
 
our times, one that was believed to be controllable, science-based,
 
computational, and eventually thoroughly intelligible. <br>
 
computational, and eventually thoroughly intelligible. <br>
Source: Erwin Kessler, "Making Art by Numbers" [http://www.plural-magazine.com/article_making_art_by_numbers.html]</blockquote>
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Source: Erwin Kessler, [[Media:Kessler Erwin 2000 Making Art by Numbers.pdf|"Making Art by Numbers"]], ''Plural'' 1, 2000.</blockquote>
  
==Members of the group==
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==Members==
[[George Sabau]], multimedia theorist; [[Calin Man]], media artist; [[Alin Gherman]], programmer; [[Judit Angel]], art critic and curator; [[Peter Hügel]], archaeologist; [[Caius Grozav]], programmer, [[Romuls Bucur]], poet; [[Roxana Chereches]], philologist; [[Ioan Ciorba]], sound engineer.
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[[George Sabau]], multimedia theorist; [[Calin Man]], media artist; [[Alin Gherman]], programmer; [[Judit Angel]], art critic and curator; [[Peter Hügel]], archaeologist; [[Caius Grozav]], programmer, [[Romuls Bucur]], poet; [[Roxana Chereches]], philologist; [[Ioan Ciorba]], sound engineer; a.o.
  
 
==Films==
 
==Films==
* http://www.kinema-ikon.net/2010_ki/filmexp.html
 
 
* http://www.youtube.com/user/kinemaikon
 
* http://www.youtube.com/user/kinemaikon
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* http://web.archive.org/web/20170310061115/http://kinema-ikon.net/2010_ki/filmexp.html
  
 
==Exhibitions==
 
==Exhibitions==
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* Paris, 1989
 
* Paris, 1989
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* ''Worx. Kinema Ikon retrospect'' '70-'05, Art Museum Arad (Nov 2005) and MNAC Bucharest (Oct 2005-Feb 2006). 7 modules, with 14 screens/displays, reflecting the stages underwent: experimental films / mixed media / hypermedia: CD ROM, installations and net works. Curators: [[Raluca Velisar]] and [[Stefan Tiron]]. [http://www.kinema-ikon.net/2005_worx/wrx.htm], [http://www.mnac.ro/previous2005.htm], [http://www.e-flux.com/shows/view/2351 announcement].
 
* ''Worx. Kinema Ikon retrospect'' '70-'05, Art Museum Arad (Nov 2005) and MNAC Bucharest (Oct 2005-Feb 2006). 7 modules, with 14 screens/displays, reflecting the stages underwent: experimental films / mixed media / hypermedia: CD ROM, installations and net works. Curators: [[Raluca Velisar]] and [[Stefan Tiron]]. [http://www.kinema-ikon.net/2005_worx/wrx.htm], [http://www.mnac.ro/previous2005.htm], [http://www.e-flux.com/shows/view/2351 announcement].
* ''Kinema Ikon 1970 2010'', Museum of Art, Arad, 2010. [http://www.kinema-ikon.net/2010_ki/7010.html] [http://alexandrupecican.wordpress.com/2010/12/19/kinema-ikon-7010/ Photos]
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* ''[http://web.archive.org/web/20170310061620if_/http://kinema-ikon.net/2010_ki/7010.html Kinema Ikon 1970 2010]'', Museum of Art, Arad, 2010. [http://alexandrupecican.wordpress.com/2010/12/19/kinema-ikon-7010/ Photos]
  
 
==Releases==
 
==Releases==
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* ''Jurnal 19702010'', 2010. [http://www.kinema-ikon.net/2010_ki/jurnal.html]
 
* ''Jurnal 19702010'', 2010. [http://www.kinema-ikon.net/2010_ki/jurnal.html]
  
==Publications==
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==Publications, catalogues==
* [http://www.kinema-ikon.net/pages/intermedia.html Intermedia magazine], [http://kinema-ikon.projects.v2.nl/pages/intrmd.htm]
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* [http://www.kinema-ikon.net/pages/pub.html KI catalogues]
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* ''Conversația'', magazine, 1990-1993. {{ro}}
* http://issuu.com/kinema-ikon
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* ''[https://issuu.com/kinema-ikon Intermedia]'', magazine, 23 numbers, Arad: kinema ikon, 1993-2011. [http://web.archive.org/web/20140817083051/http://www.kinema-ikon.net/pages/intermedia.html] [http://kinema-ikon.projects.v2.nl/pages/intrmd.htm]
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* ''[[Media:Kinema Ikon vol 1 2005.pdf|Kinema Ikon, vol. 1]]'', 2005, 99 pp, [https://issuu.com/kinema-ikon/docs/ki_35_1 Issuu]. Catalogue. {{ro}}/{{en}}
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* ''[[Media:Kinema_Ikon_Mise_a_jour_2015.pdf|Kinema Ikon: Mise à jour]]'', Arad: kinema ikon, 2015, [170] pp, [https://issuu.com/kinema-ikon/docs/2015_ki_updated Issuu]. Catalogue. {{en}}
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* ''[[Media:Kinema Ikon Authors 1970-2020 2018.pdf|Kinema Ikon: Authors, 1970-2020]]'', ed. kinema ikon, Arad: Museum Arad, 2018, [125] pp, [https://issuu.com/kinema-ikon/docs/ki-autori Issuu]. Catalogue. {{en}}
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* ''[[Media:Kinema Ikon Films 1970-2020 2019.pdf|Kinema Ikon: Films, 1970-2020]]'', eds. kinema ikon / Complexul Muzeal Arad, Bucharest: Dark Publishing, 2019, 255 pp, [https://issuu.com/kinema-ikon/docs/ki50-films Issuu]. Catalogue. {{en}}
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* George Săbău, ''[[Media:Sabau George Istoria proiectului kinema ikon 50 2021.pdf|Istoria proiectului kinema ikon 50]]'', eds. kinema ikon & Museum Arad, Bucharest: Dark Publishing, 2021, 243 pp, [https://issuu.com/kinema-ikon/docs/2021_istoria_proiectului_ki50_gs Issuu]. {{ro}}
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* [http://issuu.com/kinema-ikon more on KI's Issuu page], [http://web.archive.org/web/20210418101103/https://kinema-ikon.net/pages/pub.html]
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==Literature==
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* Călin Dan, "Filmul experimental, scriere și lectură", ''Revista Arta'' 6, 1985, pp 35-36. {{ro}}
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* George Sabau, [https://monoskop.org/images/e/e8/Kinema_Ikon_vol_1_2005.pdf#page=6 "Istoria contextuală a grupului kinema ikon"], in ''Kinema Ikon, vol. 1'', Bucharest: MNAC National Museum of Contemporary Art, 2005, pp 4-67. {{ro}}
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** [https://monoskop.org/images/e/e8/Kinema_Ikon_vol_1_2005.pdf#page=6 "A Contextual History of the kinema ikon Group"], in ''Kinema Ikon, vol. 1'', Bucharest: MNAC National Museum of Contemporary Art, 2005, pp 4-66, [http://web.archive.org/web/20210418090558/http://www.kinema-ikon.net/pages/txt.htm HTML]. [http://kinema-ikon.projects.v2.nl/pages/txt.htm] {{en}}
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* Catalina Cosmescu, [http://designcatalina.blogspot.com/2011/03/retrospect-despre-kinema-ikon.html "Retrospect. Despre Kinema Ikon"], Mar 2011. {{ro}}
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* Dušan Barok, [[Media:Barok Dusan 2012 Kinema Ikon Interview with Calin Man.pdf|"Kinema Ikon: Interview with Călin Dan"]], ''3/4'' 27/28: "Remake", Bratislava, 2012, pp 36-39. {{en}}/{{sk}}
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* Ileana Selejan, [http://idea.ro/revista/ro/article/XIWAOBIAACIAt7L5/kinema-ikon--experiment-continuu "kinema ikon – experiment continuu"], ''IDEA'' 46, 2014. {{ro}}
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* Cristian Nae, [[Media:Nae Cristian 2016 Reality Unbound The Politics of Fragmentation in the Experimental Productions of kinema ikon.pdf|"Reality Unbound. The Politics of Fragmentation in the Experimental Productions of kinema ikon"]], ''Studies in Eastern European Cinema'' 7:1, 2016, pp 25-38; repr., shortened, as [https://monoskop.org/images/4/45/Kinema_Ikon_Films_1970-2020_2019.pdf#page=224 "Fragmented Visions. The Politics of Aesthetics in Kinema Ikon's Experimental Films"], in ''Kinema Ikon: Films, 1979-2020'', Bucharest: Dark Publishing, 2019, pp 224-229. [https://doi.org/10.1080/2040350X.2016.1112501] {{en}}
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** [https://www.dokrevue.cz/clanky/fragmentovane-vize-politika-estetiky-v-experimentalnich-filmech-kinema-ikon "Fragmentované vize. Politika estetiky v experimentálních filmech kinema ikon"], trans. Petra Ocelková, ''Dok.Revue'', Nov 2021. {{cz}}
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* Tomck@t, [https://specialarad.ro/interviu-experimental-in-capsula-timpului-cu-parintele-spiritual-kinema-ikon-gheorghe-sabau/ "Interviu experimental în capsula timpului cu „părintele spiritual” Kinema Ikon, Gheorghe Săbău"], ''Special Arad'', Aug 2017. {{ro}}
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* George Sabau, [https://monoskop.org/images/4/45/Kinema_Ikon_Films_1970-2020_2019.pdf#page=211 "Kinema Ikon, Mildly Nostalgic Notes"], trans. Romulus Bucur, in ''Kinema Ikon: Films, 1979-2020'', Bucharest: Dark Publishing, 2019, pp 211-217. {{en}}
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* Ileana Selejan, [https://monoskop.org/images/4/45/Kinema_Ikon_Films_1970-2020_2019.pdf#page=218 "Beginning with The End, or Every End is a New Beginning in Loop"], in ''Kinema Ikon: Films, 1979-2020'', Bucharest: Dark Publishing, 2019, pp 218-223. {{en}}
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* Ion Indolean, [https://monoskop.org/images/4/45/Kinema_Ikon_Films_1970-2020_2019.pdf#page=230 "Memory as Experiment"], in ''Kinema Ikon: Films, 1979-2020'', Bucharest: Dark Publishing, 2019, pp 230-233. {{en}}
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* Olga Stefan, [https://monoskop.org/images/4/45/Kinema_Ikon_Films_1970-2020_2019.pdf#page=234 "Kinema Ikon, Experimental Film Workshop in Arad, Romania 1970 - now"], in ''Kinema Ikon: Films, 1979-2020'', Bucharest: Dark Publishing, 2019, pp 234-237. {{en}}
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* Sabin Bors, [https://monoskop.org/images/4/45/Kinema_Ikon_Films_1970-2020_2019.pdf#page=238 "Memorial Ergonomy"], in ''Kinema Ikon: Films, 1979-2020'', Bucharest: Dark Publishing, 2019, pp 238-241. {{en}}
  
==Articles==
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* Adriana Oprea, [https://monoskop.org/images/4/45/Kinema_Ikon_Films_1970-2020_2019.pdf#page=242 "Magie putreda"], in ''Kinema Ikon: Films, 1979-2020'', Bucharest: Dark Publishing, 2019, pp 242-246. {{ro}}
* George Sabau, "Contextual history of Kinema Ikon", 2005. [http://www.kinema-ikon.net/pages/txt.htm] [http://kinema-ikon.projects.v2.nl/pages/txt.htm]
 
* Catalina Cosmescu, "Retrospect. Despre Kinema Ikon", March 2011. (Romanian) [http://designcatalina.blogspot.com/2011/03/retrospect-despre-kinema-ikon.html]
 
  
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* Horea Avram, [https://monoskop.org/images/4/45/Kinema_Ikon_Films_1970-2020_2019.pdf#page=248 "The Avant-garde Unconscious: On kinema ikon's (Filmic) Practice"], in ''Kinema Ikon: Films, 1979-2020'', Bucharest: Dark Publishing, 2019, pp 248-253. {{en}}
  
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* Raluca Oancea (Nestor), [https://revistaarta.ro/ro/kinema-ikon-jumatate-de-veac-de-experiment-si-comunitate/ "kinema ikon – Jumătate de veac de experiment și comunitate"], ''Revista Arta'', Feb 2020. Exh. review. {{ro}}
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** [https://revistaarta.ro/en/kinema-ikon-a-half-century-of-experiment-and-community/ "kinema ikon – A half century of Experiment and Community"], trans. Rareș Grozea, ''Revista Arta'', Feb 2020. {{en}}
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* Radu Toderici, [http://revisteaua.ro/wp-content/uploads/Steaua-nr-11-12-din-2020.pdf#page=108 "ki"], ''Steaua'' 71:11, Nov-Dec 2020, pp 108-110. {{ro}}
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== See also==
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[[Romania#Experimental_film.2C_avant-garde_film]], [[Romania#Video_art]]
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==Links==
 
* http://kinema-ikon.net/
 
* http://kinema-ikon.net/
 
* http://kinema-ikon.projects.v2.nl/
 
* http://kinema-ikon.projects.v2.nl/
 
* http://www.facebook.com/pages/kinema-ikon/108409916620
 
* http://www.facebook.com/pages/kinema-ikon/108409916620
 
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* http://kf2arad.blogspot.com/
See also: [[Romania#Experimental_film.2C_avant-garde_film]], [[Romania#Video_art]]
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* https://www.museumarad.ro/3-5-ki.html
  
 
[[Category:Experimental film]]
 
[[Category:Experimental film]]

Latest revision as of 11:28, 26 February 2022

kinema ikon is the oldest active experimental art group in Romania. Founded in 1970 as a multimedia atelier at the art school in Arad it is currently hosted by the Arad's History Museum and Art Museum. More than forty years of existence are the result of an optimal equilibrium between the participative, collaborative or group projects, and the individual works. Something between the satisfaction of the collective creation and the satisfaction of the auctorial egotism. Therefore, the stylistic mark of kinema ikon occurs from the interdisciplinary approach of a certain medium (film, video, hypermedia) with the specific tools of the different fields its members are active in (artists, writers, architects, photographers, musicians, programmers, etc.)

History[edit]

kinema ikon has undergone different stages: experimental film (1970-1989), video art (1990-1993), hypermedia (interactive installations, CD-ROM, net.art, 1994-2005), and from 2006 hypermedia and hybrid media. Both individual works and the group works Opera Prima (1996 [1]), Commedia del Multimedia (1996 [2]), alteridem.exe (2003 [3]) and Hymera (2005 [4]) - are stylistically characterized by experimental, eclectic and playful forms of expression. The resulting works are sensible objects, having an aspect of digital chimera, set in a non-linear fictional discourse, allowing multiple possibilities to the users interactive approach.

In the 1970s the group participated with its films at the Fiction Short Films festival in Brno (1973), and Abstract Animation festival in Krakow (1977).

In the 1980s the group organised two Intermedia symposiums in the Arad's City Theatre under the theme The Image (1984, [5]), and The Interval (1988, [6]).

1990-1993 Conversatia magazine. Editorial staff: igia holuta [chief-editor] / valentin constantin / george sabau / florin didilescu / liliana trandabur / florin hornoiu / ioan galea / ovidiu pecican / ionel nistor / viorel simulov / calin man / maria rosculet / traian rosculet / iosif stroia [design].

Since 1994 the group publishes the intermedia magazine, the theoretical dimension of its members interest in the new media. Editorial staff (1994-2005): george sabau / peter hügel / judit angel / caius grozav / andreea bencsik / liliana trandabur / paul george bodea / roxana chereches / adrian sandu / romulus bucur / calin man ,[design.chief-editor]. Editorial staff (since 2006): the authors.

By the early seventies, the most representative movements of making

"art by numbers" in Romania were the Sigma group in Timisoara (Constantin Flondor, Stefan Bertalan, Roman Cotosman and Doru Tulcan) and Kinema Ikon, the circle of experimental film in Arad led by George Săbău. The first was intimately connected to a neo-constructivist (Bauhaus-like) practice both in creation and teaching, while the second was a rather structuralist-borne implant in experimental film-making. Although "sigma" was very well-known and held in high esteem (even by the political establishment of the time), whereas Kinema Ikon was barely known at all, pursuing its research in a rather silent if not hidden manner, both groups shared, in the words of one of the "sigma" manifestoes, "the reconsideration of the environment as an object of artistic research" and they aimed, manifestly, at the development of an "intelligence able to adapt them to a future culture" inescapably marked by "the development of an algorithmic culture". Structures, frames, schemes, recurrent invariants, technical manipulation, calculation, repetition and scientific-like insight were the main marks of their aesthetic outlook. "Organizational" and meliorist, positivist and centripetal, highly "humanistic" in a contemporary sense, such artistic endeavors are nonetheless stamped by that profoundly Utopian drive of the historical avant-garde. Their unexpressed goal was to regain a certain, "alternative transcendence" for our times, one that was believed to be controllable, science-based, computational, and eventually thoroughly intelligible.

Source: Erwin Kessler, "Making Art by Numbers", Plural 1, 2000.

Members[edit]

George Sabau, multimedia theorist; Calin Man, media artist; Alin Gherman, programmer; Judit Angel, art critic and curator; Peter Hügel, archaeologist; Caius Grozav, programmer, Romuls Bucur, poet; Roxana Chereches, philologist; Ioan Ciorba, sound engineer; a.o.

Films[edit]

Exhibitions[edit]

  • Paris, 1989
  • Worx. Kinema Ikon retrospect '70-'05, Art Museum Arad (Nov 2005) and MNAC Bucharest (Oct 2005-Feb 2006). 7 modules, with 14 screens/displays, reflecting the stages underwent: experimental films / mixed media / hypermedia: CD ROM, installations and net works. Curators: Raluca Velisar and Stefan Tiron. [7], [8], announcement.

Releases[edit]

Publications, catalogues[edit]

  • Conversația, magazine, 1990-1993. (Romanian)

Literature[edit]

  • Călin Dan, "Filmul experimental, scriere și lectură", Revista Arta 6, 1985, pp 35-36. (Romanian)
  • Ion Indolean, "Memory as Experiment", in Kinema Ikon: Films, 1979-2020, Bucharest: Dark Publishing, 2019, pp 230-233. (English)
  • Sabin Bors, "Memorial Ergonomy", in Kinema Ikon: Films, 1979-2020, Bucharest: Dark Publishing, 2019, pp 238-241. (English)
  • Adriana Oprea, "Magie putreda", in Kinema Ikon: Films, 1979-2020, Bucharest: Dark Publishing, 2019, pp 242-246. (Romanian)
  • Radu Toderici, "ki", Steaua 71:11, Nov-Dec 2020, pp 108-110. (Romanian)

See also[edit]

Romania#Experimental_film.2C_avant-garde_film, Romania#Video_art

Links[edit]