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Gabriel Barcia-Colombo: Capturing memories in video art
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo: Čuvanje uspomena u video umjetnosti
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Koristeći video mapiranje i projekciju, umjetnik Gabriel Barcia-Colombo uspijeva sačuvati i dijeliti svoje uspomene i prijateljstva. Na TED Fellow Talks pokazuje nam svoj šarmantan i promišljen rad koji uspijeva sačuvati ljude u staklenkama, torbama, električnim miješalicama…
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. Full bio
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 collect things.
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Volim skupljati stvari.
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Ever since I was a kid, I've had massive collections
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Još od djetinjstva imao sam ogromnu zbirku
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of random stuff, everything from bizarre hot sauces
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različitih stvari, sve od bizarnih ljutih umaka
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from all around the world to insects
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s različitih strana svijeta do kukaca
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that I've captured and put in jars.
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koje sam uhvatio i stavljao u staklenke.
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Now, it's no secret, because I like collecting things,
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Nije tajna da, kako volim skupljati stvari,
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that I love the Natural History Museum
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volim i Natural History Museum,
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and the collections of animals
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te zbirke životinja
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at the Natural History Museum in dioramas.
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koje se tamo nalaze u dioramama.
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These, to me, are like living sculptures, right,
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One su za mene kao živuće skulpture
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that you can go and look at,
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koje možeš posjetiti i pogledati,
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and they memorialize a specific point of time
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a koje čuvaju određen trenutak u vremenu
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in this animal's life.
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u životu tih životinja.
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So I was thinking about my own life,
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Tako sam razmišljao o vlastitom životu
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and how I'd like to memorialize my life, you know,
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i o tome kako bih volio sačuvati uspomenu na njega, znate,
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for the ages, and also — (Laughter) —
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za sva vremena i također - (Smijeh) -
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the lives of my friends, but
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živote mojih prijatelja,
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the problem with this is that my friends aren't quite keen
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ali problem je u tome što moji prijatelji nisu previše zagrijani
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on the idea of me taxidermy-ing them. (Laughter)
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za ideju prepariranja. (Smijeh)
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So instead, I turned to video,
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Tako sam se okrenuo videu,
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and video is the next best way to preserve and memorialize
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a video je sljedeći najbolji način da se sačuva uspomena
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someone and to capture a specific moment in time.
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na nekoga te zaustaviti određen poseban trenutak u vremenu.
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So what I did was, I filmed six of my friends
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Ono što sam učinio jest da sam snimio šest svojih prijatelja
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and then, using video mapping and video projection,
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i zatim, koristeći video maping i video projekciju,
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I created a video sculpture, which was these six friends
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stvorio video skulpture, mojih šest prijatelja
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projected into jars. (Laughter)
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zarobljenih u staklenkama. (Smijeh)
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So now I have this collection of my friends
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Tako sada imam zbirku svojih prijatelja
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I can take around with me whenever I go,
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koju mogu ponijeti sa sobom kamo god išao,
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and this is called Animalia Chordata,
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a djelo se zove Animalia Chordata,
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from the Latin nomenclature for
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iz latinskog sustava nomenklature
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human being, classification system.
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ljudskih bića, klasifikacijski sustav.
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So this piece memorializes my friends in these jars,
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Tako ovo djelo uspijeva očuvati moje prijatelje u staklenkama,
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and they actually move around. (Laughter)
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te se oni čak mogu i kretati. (Smijeh)
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So, this is interesting to me,
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Dakle, to je vrlo zanimljivo,
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but it lacked a certain human element. (Laughter)
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ali nedostajao mi je određen element ljudskosti. ( Smijeh)
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It's a digital sculpture, so I wanted to add
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Ovo je digitalna skulptura, tako da sam htio dodati
01:41
an interaction system. So what I did was,
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sustav interakcije. Ono što sam učinio jest
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I added a proximity sensor, so that when you get close
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da sam dodao senzor blizine, stoga kada se približite
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to the people in jars, they react to you in different ways.
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ljudima u staklenkama, oni reagiraju na različite načine.
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You know, just like people on the street
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Znate, kao što ljudi na ulici
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when you get too close to them.
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reagiraju kada im se previše približite.
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Some people reacted in terror. (Laughter)
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Neki ljudi reagiraju prestrašeno. (Smijeh)
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Others reacted in asking you for help,
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Drugi vas traže za pomoć,
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and some people hide from you.
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a neki se kriju od vas.
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So this was really interesting to me, this idea of
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Ovo mi je bilo zanimljivo, ta ideja
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taking video off the screen and putting it in real life,
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uzimanja videa s ekrana i postavljanja u stvarni život
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and also adding interactivity to sculpture.
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također dodajući interaktivnost sa skulpturom.
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So over the next year, I documented 40 of my other friends
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Tako da sam tijekom sljedeće godine dokumentirao 40 svojih prijatelja
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and trapped them in jars as well
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i zarobio ih u svoje staklenke,
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and created a piece known as Garden,
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te stvorio djelo poznato kao Garden (Vrt),
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which is literally a garden of humanity.
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što doslovce predstavlja vrt čovječanstva.
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But something about the first piece,
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Ali nešto mi se u vezi ovog prvog djela,
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the Animali Chordata piece, kept coming back to me,
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Animalia Chordata, uporno vraćalo,
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this idea of interaction with art,
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ta ideja interakcije s umjetnošću,
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and I really liked the idea of people being able to interact,
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stvarno mi se svidjela zamisao da ljudi mogu stupiti u interakciju
02:23
and also being challenged by interacting with art.
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s umjetnošću, te također biti izazvani u kontaktu s njom.
02:25
So I wanted to create a new piece that actually
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Tako sam htio stvoriti novo djelo koje će zapravo
02:27
forced people to come and interact with something,
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primorati ljude da se približe i ostvare kontakt s nečime,
02:29
and the way I did this was actually by projecting
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a način na koji sam ovo ostvario jest da sam projektirao
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a 1950s housewife into a blender. (Laughter)
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kućanicu iz 1950-ih u električnu miješalicu. (Smijeh)
02:35
This is a piece called Blend, and what it does is
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Ovo djelo se zove Blend, a ono što čini jest
02:37
it actually makes you implicit in the work of art.
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da vas doista uključuje u umjetnost.
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You may never experience the entire thing yourself.
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Možda nikada nećete to sami potpuno iskusiti.
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You can walk away, you can just watch as this character
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Možete otići, možete samo promatrati kako lik
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stands there in the blender and looks at you,
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stoji sam u miješalici i gleda u vas
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or you can actually choose to interact with it.
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ili možete odlučiti ostvariti kontakt s njim.
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So if you do choose to interact with the piece,
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Ako odlučite ostvariti kontakt s djelom,
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and you press the blender button, it actually sends
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te pritisnete dugme na miješalici, ono lik pretvara
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this character into this dizzying disarray of dishevelment.
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u vrtoglavu miješajuću zbrku.
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By doing that, you are now part of my piece.
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Učinivši to vi ste postali dio mog djela.
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You, like the people that are trapped in my work
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Vi, kao i ljudi koji su zarobljeni u mom djelu
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— (Blender noises, laughter) —
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- (Zvuk miješalice, smijeh) -
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have become part of my work as well. (Laughter)
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postali ste i sami dio mog djela. (Smijeh)
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(Laughter)
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(Smijeh)
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(Applause)
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(Pljesak)
03:20
But, but this seems a bit unfair, right?
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Ali, ovo se čini pomalo nepoštenim, zar ne?
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I put my friends in jars, I put this character,
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Stavljao sam vlastite prijatelje u staklenke,
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this sort of endangered species character in a blender.
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stavio sam ovaj lik, na neki način ugroženu vrstu u električnu miješalicu.
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But I'd never done anything about myself.
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Ali nikada nisam ništa učinio samome sebi.
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I'd never really memorialized myself.
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Nikada nisam očuvao uspomenu na samoga sebe.
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So I decided to create a piece which is a self-portrait piece.
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Tako sam odlučio stvoriti djelo koje će biti na neki način autoportret.
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This is sort of a self-portrait taxidermy time capsule piece
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Ovo je neka vrsta očuvanog autoportreta vremenske kapsule
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called A Point Just Passed,
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koja se zove A Point Just Passed (Trenutak koji je upravo prošao)
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in which I project myself on top of a time card punch clock,
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gdje sam projektirao samoga sebe na vrh sata s probušenim karticama.
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and it's up to you.
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I stvar je na vama.
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If you want to choose to punch that punch card clock,
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Ako odlučite probušiti karticu na satu
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you actually age me.
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vi na određen način činite moj lik starijim.
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So I start as a baby, and then if you punch the clock,
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Počinjem kao dijete, a kada probušite karticu i pokrenete sat,
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you'll actually transform the baby into a toddler,
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pretvarate me u starije dijete,
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and then from a toddler I'm transformed into a teenager.
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a potom iz starijeg djeteta u tinejdžera.
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From a teenager, I'm transformed into my current self.
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Iz tinejdžera pretvaram se u trenutnog sebe.
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From my current self, I'm turned into a middle-aged man,
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Iz svog trenutnog stanja postajem sredovječni čovjek,
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and then, from there, into an elderly man.
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a potom se pretvaram u starijeg čovjeka.
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And if you punch the punch card clock a hundred times
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Ako pokrenete sat stotinu puta
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in one day, the piece goes black
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u jednom danu,
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and is not to be reset until the next day.
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djelo se zacrni i neće se ponovno pokrenuti da idućeg dana.
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So, in doing so, you're erasing time.
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Tako da čineći to, vi brišete vrijeme.
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You're actually implicit in this work
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Sudjelujete u ovom djelu
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and you're erasing my life.
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brišući moj život.
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So I like this about interactive video sculpture,
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To što volim kod interaktivne video skulpture
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that you can actually interact with it,
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jest da možete stupiti u kontakt s njom,
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that all of you can actually touch an artwork
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svi vi zapravo možete dodirnuti umjetničko djelo
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and be part of the artwork yourselves,
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te postati i sami njegov dio,
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and hopefully, one day, I'll have each and every one of you
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a jednog dana, nadam se, imat ću svakoga od vas
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trapped in one of my jars. (Laughter)
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zarobljenog u jednu od mojih staklenki. (Smijeh)
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Thank you. (Applause)
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Hvala! (Pljesak)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo - Video sculptorGabe 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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