ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo - Video sculptor
Gabe Barcia-Colombo creates madcap art inspired both by Renaissance era curiosity cabinets and the modern-day digital chronicling of everyday life. Think: miniature people projected in objects and a DNA Vending Machine.

Why you should listen

Gabe Barcia-Colombo is an American artist who creates installation pieces that both delight and point to the strangeness of our modern, digital world. His latest work is a DNA Vending Machine, which dispenses vials of DNA extracted from friends at dinner parties. He's also created video installations of "miniature people" encased inside ordinary objects like suitcases, blenders and more. His work comments on the act of leaving one's imprint for the next generation. Call it "artwork with consequences."

As he explains it: "While formally implemented by natural history museums and collections (which find their roots in Renaissance-era 'cabinets of curiosity'), this process has grown more pointed and pervasive in the modern-day obsession with personal digital archiving and the corresponding growth of social media culture. My video sculptures play upon this exigency in our culture to chronicle, preserve and wax nostalgic, an idea which I render visually by 'collecting' human beings (alongside cultural archetypes) as scientific specimens. I repurpose everyday objects like blenders, suitcases and cans of Spam into venues for projecting and inserting videos of people."

Barcia-Colombo is an alumnus and instructor at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. Read about his latest work on CoolHunting and in his TED Fellows profile.

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Gabriel Barcia-Colombo: Capturing memories in video art

Gabrijel Barsia-Kolombo (Gabriel Barcia-Colombo): Zarobljavanje uspomena u video umetnosti

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Koristeći video maping i projektovanje, umetnik Gabriel Barsia - Kolombo zarobljava i deli svoje uspomene i prijateljstva. Na TED Fellow Talks pokazuje svoj šarmantan i promišljeni rad --koji čuva ljude iz njegovog života u teglama, koferima, mikserima...
- Video sculptor
Gabe Barcia-Colombo creates madcap art inspired both by Renaissance era curiosity cabinets and the modern-day digital chronicling of everyday life. Think: miniature people projected in objects and a DNA Vending Machine. Full bio

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I love to collectсакупити things.
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Volim da skupljam stvari.
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Ever sinceОд I was a kidклинац, I've had massiveмасивни collectionsколекције
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Još kao dete imao sam ogromne kolekcije
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of randomслучајно stuffствари, everything from bizarrebizarno hotвруће saucesсосеви
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nasumičnih stvari, sve od čudnih ljutih sosova
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from all around the worldсвет to insectsинсекти
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iz celog sveta sve do insekata
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that I've capturedзаробљен and put in jarstegle.
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koje sam hvatao i stavljao u tegle.
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Now, it's no secretтајна, because I like collectingприкупљање things,
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Zapravo i nije neka tajna da, pošto volim da skupljam stvari,
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that I love the NaturalPrirodno HistoryIstorija MuseumMuzej
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volim i Nacionalni istorijski muzej
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and the collectionsколекције of animalsЖивотиње
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i kolekcije životinja
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at the NaturalPrirodno HistoryIstorija MuseumMuzej in dioramasdiorame.
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u Nacionalnom istorijskom muzeju u obliku diorama.
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These, to me, are like livingживи sculpturesскулптуре, right,
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One su meni kao žive skulpture, je l',
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that you can go and look at,
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koje možeš da odeš i pogledaš
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and they memorializepriseжamo a specificспецифични pointтачка of time
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i one ovekovečuju određeni trenutak u vremenu
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in this animal'sživotinje life.
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života ove životinje.
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So I was thinkingразмишљање about my ownвластити life,
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Pa sam razmišljao o sopstvenom životu,
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and how I'd like to memorializepriseжamo my life, you know,
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i kako bih voleo da ovekovečim svoj život, znate,
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for the agesгодине, and alsoтакође — (LaughterSmeh) —
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za sva vremena, ali isto tako - (Smeh) -
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the livesживи of my friendsпријатељи, but
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živote mojih prijatelja, ali
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the problemпроблем with this is that my friendsпријатељи aren'tнису quiteприлично keenжестоко
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problem je u tome što moji prijatelji i nisu baš oduševljeni
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on the ideaидеја of me taxidermy-ingprepariranja-ing them. (LaughterSmeh)
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idejom da ih prepariram. (Smeh)
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So insteadуместо тога, I turnedокренуо се to videoвидео,
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Tako da sam se umesto toga okrenuo videu,
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and videoвидео is the nextследећи bestнајбоље way to preserveсачувати and memorializepriseжamo
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koji je sledeći najbolji način da se sačuva i očuva
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someoneнеко and to captureхватање a specificспецифични momentтренутак in time.
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neko i da se uhvati određeni trenutak u vremenu.
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So what I did was, I filmedснимљен sixшест of my friendsпријатељи
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Tako da sam snimio mojih šest prijatelja
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and then, usingКористећи videoвидео mappingмапирање and videoвидео projectionпројекција,
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a onda, koristeći video mapu i video projekciju,
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I createdстворено a videoвидео sculptureскулптура, whichкоја was these sixшест friendsпријатељи
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stvorio sam video skulpturu, koja je zapravo ovih šest prijatelja
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projectedпројектован into jarstegle. (LaughterSmeh)
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projektovanih u tegle. (Smeh)
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So now I have this collectionколекција of my friendsпријатељи
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Tako da sada imam ovu kolekciju svojih prijatelja
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I can take around with me wheneverбило кад I go,
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koju mogu da ponesem sa sobom kad god krenem negde,
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and this is calledпозвани AnimaliaAnimalia ChordataИordata,
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i ona se zove Animalia Chordata,
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from the LatinLatinski nomenclaturenomenklature for
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iz latinske nomenklature za
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humanљудско beingбиће, classificationklasifikacija systemсистем.
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živo biće, u sistemu klasifikacije.
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So this pieceпиеце memorializesmemorializes my friendsпријатељи in these jarstegle,
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Dakle ovo delo ovekovečuje moje prijatelje u ovim teglama
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and they actuallyзаправо moveпотез around. (LaughterSmeh)
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i oni se zapravo pokreću. (Smeh)
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So, this is interestingзанимљиво to me,
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Dakle, meni je ovo zanimljivo,
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but it lackednedostajalo a certainизвестан humanљудско elementелемент. (LaughterSmeh)
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ali nedostajao mu je izvesni ljudski elemenat. (Smeh)
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It's a digitalдигитални sculptureскулптура, so I wanted to addдодати
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Radi se o digitalnoj skulpturi, pa sam želeo da dodam
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an interactionинтеракција systemсистем. So what I did was,
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interakcijski sistem. Tako da sam
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I addedдодато a proximityблизина sensorсензор, so that when you get closeБлизу
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dodao senzor za blizinu, tako da kad se približite
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to the people in jarstegle, they reactреаговати to you in differentразличит waysначини.
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ljudima u tegli, oni reaguju na vas na različite načine.
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You know, just like people on the streetулица
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Znate, baš kao i ljudi na ulici
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when you get too closeБлизу to them.
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kada im se previše približite.
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Some people reactedreagovala in terrorтерор. (LaughterSmeh)
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Neki ljudi su odreagovali užasom. (Smeh)
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OthersDrugi reactedreagovala in askingпитајући you for help,
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Drugi su odreagovali tako što su vas molili za pomoć,
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and some people hideсакрити from you.
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a neki ljudi se kriju od vas.
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So this was really interestingзанимљиво to me, this ideaидеја of
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Dakle ovo mi je bilo veoma zanimljivo, ideja
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takingузимајући videoвидео off the screenекран and puttingстављање it in realправи life,
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da uzmem video sa ekrana i da ga stavim u stvaran život,
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and alsoтакође addingдодавање interactivityinteraktivnost to sculptureскулптура.
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ali i da dodam interaktivnost skulpturi.
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So over the nextследећи yearгодине, I documentedдокументовано 40 of my other friendsпријатељи
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Tako da sam u narednih godinu dana dokumentovao još 40 mojih prijatelja
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and trappedзаробљени them in jarstegle as well
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i zarobio i njih u tegle
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and createdстворено a pieceпиеце knownпознат as GardenVrt,
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i stvorio delo poznato pod imenom Bašta,
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whichкоја is literallyбуквално a gardenврт of humanityчовечанство.
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koja je bukvalno bašta čovečanstva.
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But something about the first pieceпиеце,
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Ali nešto u vezi sa prvim delom,
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the AnimaliЋivotinje ChordataИordata pieceпиеце, keptчува comingдолазе back to me,
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Animali Chordata, mi se stalno vraćalo,
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this ideaидеја of interactionинтеракција with artуметност,
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ideja o interakciji sa umetnošću,
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and I really likedволи the ideaидеја of people beingбиће ableу могуцности to interactИнтерактивно,
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i zaista mi se svidela ideja da ljudi mogu da vrše interakciju,
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and alsoтакође beingбиће challengedизазов by interactingинтерактивно with artуметност.
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ali i da ih interakcija sa umetnošću izaziva.
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So I wanted to createстворити a newново pieceпиеце that actuallyзаправо
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Tako da sam želeo da stvorim novo delo koje bi zapravo
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forcedприсиљен people to come and interactИнтерактивно with something,
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nateralo ljude da priđu i komuniciraju sa nečim,
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and the way I did this was actuallyзаправо by projectingпројектовање
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i to sam uradio projektovanjem
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a 1950s housewifedomaćica into a blenderblender. (LaughterSmeh)
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domaćice iz 1950. u mikseru. (Smeh)
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This is a pieceпиеце calledпозвани BlendSpoj, and what it does is
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Ovo delo se zove Mešanje i ono što radi je da
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it actuallyзаправо makesчини you implicitimplicitna in the work of artуметност.
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te čini implicitnim u umetničkom delu.
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You mayможе never experienceискуство the entireцео thing yourselfсами.
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Možda nikada nećete sami iskusiti sve ovo.
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You can walkходати away, you can just watch as this characterкарактер
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Možete otići, možete samo da gledate dok ovaj lik
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standsстоји there in the blenderblender and looksизглед at you,
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stoji tamo, u mikseru i gleda vas,
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or you can actuallyзаправо chooseизаберите to interactИнтерактивно with it.
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ili možete odabrati da vršite interakciju sa njim.
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So if you do chooseизаберите to interactИнтерактивно with the pieceпиеце,
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Dakle, ako odlučite da vršite interakciju sa delom
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and you pressпритисните the blenderblender buttonдугме, it actuallyзаправо sendsшаље
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i pritisnete dugme na mikseru, on zapravo šalje
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this characterкарактер into this dizzyingnepregledive disarraynered of dishevelmentdishevelment.
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ovog lika u vrtoglavu zbrku raščupanosti.
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By doing that, you are now partдео of my pieceпиеце.
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Uradivši to, postajete deo mog dela.
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You, like the people that are trappedзаробљени in my work
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Vi ste takođe, kao i ljudi koji su zarobljeni u mom radu
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— (BlenderBlender noisesбуке, laughterсмех) —
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- (Zvuk miksera, smeh) -
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have becomeпостати partдео of my work as well. (LaughterSmeh)
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postali deo mog rada. (Smeh)
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(LaughterSmeh)
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(Smeh)
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(ApplauseAplauz)
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(Aplauz)
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But, but this seemsИзгледа a bitмало unfairNije fer, right?
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Ali ovo deluje pomalo nepravedno, zar ne?
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I put my friendsпријатељи in jarstegle, I put this characterкарактер,
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Stavio sam svoje prijatelje u tegle, stavio sam ovaj lik,
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this sortврста of endangeredugrožena speciesврсте characterкарактер in a blenderblender.
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ovu, na neki način, ugroženu vrstu lika u mikser.
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But I'd never doneГотово anything about myselfЈа сам.
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Ali nikada nisam ništa uradio sebi.
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I'd never really memorializedmemorisano myselfЈа сам.
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NIkada nisam zapravo sebe ovekovečio.
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So I decidedодлучио to createстворити a pieceпиеце whichкоја is a self-portraitautoportret pieceпиеце.
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Pa sam rešio da napravim delo koje bi bilo autoportret.
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This is sortврста of a self-portraitautoportret taxidermyprepariranje time capsuleкапсула pieceпиеце
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Ovo je neka vrsta autoportreta, preparirana vremenska kapsula,
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calledпозвани A PointTačka Just PassedPreminuo,
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nazvana Trenutak je upravo prošao,
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in whichкоја I projectпројекат myselfЈа сам on topврх of a time cardкартица punchudarac clockсат,
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u kome ja projektujem sebe na vrhu sata za evidenciju radnog vremena
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and it's up to you.
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i sve je na vama.
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If you want to chooseизаберите to punchudarac that punchudarac cardкартица clockсат,
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Ako želite da ukucate vreme na karticu tog sata,
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you actuallyзаправо ageстарост me.
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dodajete mi godine.
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So I startпочетак as a babyбеба, and then if you punchudarac the clockсат,
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Tako da, otpočinjem kao beba, a onda ako ukucate vreme,
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you'llти ћеш actuallyзаправо transformпреобразити the babyбеба into a toddlertek prohodala,
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pretvorićete bebu u dete,
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and then from a toddlertek prohodala I'm transformedтрансформисано into a teenagerтинејџер.
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a onda sam iz deteta pretvoren u tinejdžera
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From a teenagerтинејџер, I'm transformedтрансформисано into my currentТренутни selfселф.
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Iz tinejdžera sam pretvoren u današnjeg sebe.
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From my currentТренутни selfселф, I'm turnedокренуо се into a middle-agedсредњих година man,
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Iz mog današnjeg sebe, pretvoren sam u sredovečnog čoveka,
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and then, from there, into an elderlyстарији man.
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i onda, iz toga, u starijeg čoveka.
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And if you punchudarac the punchudarac cardкартица clockсат a hundredсто timesпута
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I ako ukucate sat sto puta
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in one day, the pieceпиеце goesиде blackцрн
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u jednom danu, delo pocrni
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and is not to be resetPoništi untilсве док the nextследећи day.
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i ne može se resetovati do sledećeg dana.
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So, in doing so, you're erasingBrisanje sadržaja time.
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Tako da, radeći to, brišete vreme.
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You're actuallyзаправо implicitimplicitna in this work
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Zapravo ste implicitni u ovom radu
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and you're erasingBrisanje sadržaja my life.
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i brišete mi život.
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So I like this about interactiveинтерактивни videoвидео sculptureскулптура,
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Dakle volim ovo kod interaktivne video skulpture,
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that you can actuallyзаправо interactИнтерактивно with it,
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činjenicu da možete da komunicirate sa njom,
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that all of you can actuallyзаправо touchдодирни an artworkуметничко дело
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da svi vi zapravo možete da dodirnete umetničko delo
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and be partдео of the artworkуметничко дело yourselvesсами,
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i da i vi sami budete deo tog umetničkog dela,
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and hopefullyНадајмо се, one day, I'll have eachсваки and everyсваки one of you
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i nadam se da ću jednog dana imati svakog od vas
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trappedзаробљени in one of my jarstegle. (LaughterSmeh)
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zarobljenog u jednoj od mojih tegli. (Smeh)
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Thank you. (ApplauseAplauz)
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Hvala. (Aplauz)
Translated by Biljana Zlatanovic
Reviewed by Ivana Korom

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo - Video sculptor
Gabe Barcia-Colombo creates madcap art inspired both by Renaissance era curiosity cabinets and the modern-day digital chronicling of everyday life. Think: miniature people projected in objects and a DNA Vending Machine.

Why you should listen

Gabe Barcia-Colombo is an American artist who creates installation pieces that both delight and point to the strangeness of our modern, digital world. His latest work is a DNA Vending Machine, which dispenses vials of DNA extracted from friends at dinner parties. He's also created video installations of "miniature people" encased inside ordinary objects like suitcases, blenders and more. His work comments on the act of leaving one's imprint for the next generation. Call it "artwork with consequences."

As he explains it: "While formally implemented by natural history museums and collections (which find their roots in Renaissance-era 'cabinets of curiosity'), this process has grown more pointed and pervasive in the modern-day obsession with personal digital archiving and the corresponding growth of social media culture. My video sculptures play upon this exigency in our culture to chronicle, preserve and wax nostalgic, an idea which I render visually by 'collecting' human beings (alongside cultural archetypes) as scientific specimens. I repurpose everyday objects like blenders, suitcases and cans of Spam into venues for projecting and inserting videos of people."

Barcia-Colombo is an alumnus and instructor at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program. Read about his latest work on CoolHunting and in his TED Fellows profile.

More profile about the speaker
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo | Speaker | TED.com