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Medium is the Message (video installation in the man's room, West Hall, RPI, Troy, NY), 10 min, loop, 2006 camera: Oleg Mavromatti Gender issues viewed through the state of the matters. TIMES UNION,Tuesday, May 16, 2006, An artist at RPI who draws on the future, by KATE PERRY Ultrafuturo critiques science, specifically the uses of artificial intelligence and the responsibilities that come with that. But Rossa said statements Ultrafuturo makes about robots can often be applied to the marginalized in society, such as women, homosexuals, minorities and animals. She made a gender commentary during her master of fine arts exhibit May 7 in a men's bathroom on campus. A projector showed a fidgety boy standing above and behind a girl. The girl was still and expressionless. A close-up video of Rossa's finger melting an ice cube serves as a backdrop. "I just want to provoke people to think about these roles, that they can change," she said. She projected the footage in the bathroom, she said between pulls on a cigarette, because of the relationship between the urinals (male) and the bathroom stalls (female). It was Rossa's work in bio art that drew Kathy High, chair of the RPI arts department, to her. "One of the key things Boryana is interested in, and I am as well, is encouraging public debate around scientific practices," High said. Frequently, bio art is used to do just that, but Rossa also employs the art form to speak about other issues such as gender division. "You need to overcome differences. Think about what if we didn't have this physical separation (between men and women) maybe we would happier to live together, or collaborate together," she said. .........................................................................
MEART and the Snow Flake, 20 min, mini DV and DVD, 2006 camera: Boryana Rossa, Guy Ben-Ary Documentary of Boryana's Georgia Tech residency in April, 2005 when MEART's brain was frozen and conversation with Guy Ben-Ary regarding semi-livings. .........................................................................
ZS Performance, DVD, Mini DV, 10 min, 2005 camera: Anton Terziev, Oleg Mavromatti Boryana Rossa stitches up herself to her mirror image. Documentation of SZ Performance at Sofia City Art Gallery, 3 June, 2005. Whatch
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“The Last Valve”, two channel color video, 5 min., DVD, Mini DV (2004) camera: Anton Terziev The film is related to my performance "The Last Valve",
(2004). This alternative method of documentation is typical for the Ultrafuturo Group. It is called "The Machine Eye" and represents a different "point of view" based on the interconnection between human body and the machine. For us this kind of documented reality has the same importance as the treditional video documentation. It is used also during the performance “Burning Letters”, as well as for the film “Ultrafuturo Manifest” in collaboration with Oleg Mavromatti. .........................................................................
Shallow Thoughts, 15 min, DVD, Mini DV (2005) camera: Anton Terziev, Oleg Mavromatti Film documentation of the performance "Shallow Thoughts". Available in two versions - Russian and English. The russian version has unique soundtrack, consisted by a conversation betsween Boryana Rossa and Oleg Mavromatti. .........................................................................
Ultrafuturo Manifest,
35 min, DVD, Mini Dv (2004) Documentation of ULTRAFUTURO performances and comments on our "common transhuman future". .........................................................................
Ia Robot, Ia ne Tvoi Rab! (I am a Robot, I am not your slave! ), 13 min, DVD, Mini DV (2004) Noise video. Reconsideration of the Kratwerk’s Man-Machine and their motto « Ia tvoi sluga, Ia tvoi rabotinik! » (I am your servaint, I am your worker!), whith a reference to the concept of a Robo-Sapiens . .........................................................................
"Who's Fly is This? The Fly is mine!" (black & white video, 10 min., 2002) "...is focused upon a dialogue between two men, using the urinal by purpose, talking over the fly, recalling various stories with flies, mostly ridiculous and funny stories. To them the fly is a symbol of the female, a symbol of what they are ready to make fun of, and act out a small but very interesting verbal performance of machism. Here we talk about superintelectualized piece of contemporary art, which even subjects its visuality to the narrative...".......Svilen Stefanov .........................................................................
"Judith" - 3 min.,2001, Judith is playing with a face of a man... .........................................................................
"Beauty & The Beast - or Why Beauties fall in love with Beasts", 3min,2000 - Mixing the artificial and the real, this tragic yet "joyful and humorous tale" is produced in a slightly mysterious,(simultaneously) very ordinary setting intended to show the tragicomedy of the situation. .........................................................................
"The Moon & the Sunshine", 2000),7,15.- The wounds and bruises are not always the result of violence - sometimes they are marks of love...Pain (including the physical one) is apart of the human existence - it is part of the life of both men and women, it is part of the act of creation...The difference is that some pains could be suffered only by women, others - only by men. This is one of the reasons for me to think that the good things about each of the sexes are various and they both have the privilege to be different...Boryana Dragoeva .........................................................................
"The thing I Had to Do", 18 min, 2000, Two women, eyes and mouths wide with parody, stare at an assumed off-screen source of terror. A heavy edit technologically ruptures the body and voice, producing a staccato inarticulateness. Their hands clamp one another's mouths to stifle fragmented digital noise, intimately audible through the viewer's headphones. Approaching the humourous, yet veering equally towards the disturbing, the work manifests a moving beyond language, or regression, historically associated with the female hysteric........................Heather Anderson .........................................................................
"Celebrating the next Twinkling", 1999, 2,45 min - This 2,45 min videoshort is based on 30 sec footage featuring the screaming faces of two girls. The sound is made by scratching the image in a DJ style. The modified soundtrack slowly becomes independent of the image. In this constant bouncing back and forth of the image and the sound the feeling of real time is gradually lost and the next twinkling is celebrated as the real progress in time. ......................................................................... "Back and Forth" video instalation,1999- In "Back and Forth," Boryana Dragoeva superimposes visual and acoustic elements of various stages of her life. A video shows the artist while reciting children's poems. Her voice has been replaced with her own voice as a child, which her mother recorded at the age of 2 1/2 years. The voice, which has been altered on the computer, reverberates in the form of an echo and renders Dragoeva a supernatural presence, which reflects the power of female forms of articulation. .........................................................................
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"How a Man Can Pass by His Ideas" 1,45 min - 1999 .........................................................................
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