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Lee Marvin Toolbox (2001)
Lee Marvin Toolbox ha vinto il Kunstpreis 2001 Medienforum München
(Mediaforum Munich, Germany).
Nelle parole dello stesso artista, Lee Marvin Toolbox è ‘una
raccolta di strumenti e oggetti finalizzati all’organizzazione
esistenziale’. Confrontation Fence, Corner Plug, Decision
Clapper,
Existence Sirene, Hand Rope, Pleasurefield, Pointpole, Sheltering
Skin,
Viewing Point sono animazioni alle quail lo spettatore accede solo
dopo essersi addentrato nel intrico susseguirsi di sentieri biforcati
che è Lee Marvin.
La voce dell’artista che intona Wandering Star, originariamente
cantata da Lee Marvin nella commedia western Paint your Wagon nel
1969, fa da colonna sonora all’opera.
In apertura, lo spettatore è chiamato a scegliere se cliccare
su ‘Lee’ o ‘Marvin’. Nel primo caso, si apre
la sezione ‘Store Room’, da dove è possible scaricare
le componenti del lavoro in forma di file MP3, Pdf e Projector.
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Project Description
Lee Marvin Toolbox contains nine imaginary tools for organising
existence: Confrontation Fence, Corner Plug, Decision Clapper,
Existence Sirene,
Hand Rope, Pleasurefield, Pointpole, Sheltering Skin, Viewing
Point. These tools are described in a Handbook and complementary
animations.
As soundtrack plays a cover version of the song Wandering Star
sung by the artist (originally sung by Lee Marvin in the Western
Comedy
Paint your Wagon, 1969). On opening, a small window offers a choice
to click either Lee or Marvin. Clicking Marvin eventually takes the
user to a Handbook. Animations will open in new windows when the
title, or the word details, is clicked. All the works components
are downloadable
as MP3, PDF or Projector files from a storage space which will be
reached following Lee or clicking Storage in the Handbook. Lee
Marvin Toolbox
is constructed in various small JavaScript windows, which form a
graphic pattern on the screen, and avoid the browser interface.
Navigation Details:
‘Lee Marvin’ click either word.
‘Lee’ takes to ‘Store Room’. ‘Store Room’ takes
to ‘Download’ window.
‘Marvin’ takes to ‘Toolbox’. ‘Toolbox’ to ‘Toolbox
Handbook’. ‘Handbook’ clicked opens the handbook.
Individual pages: click title or ‘Details’ to open animations. ‘Exit’ opens
goodbye page and exits back to homepage and closes every open window.
Animations:
each is different, each needs to be explored. Some run
in a continuous loop, but most have stops and buttons that need to
be discovered,
choices have to be made. For example, Pleasurefield has roll
over buttons that
trigger 12 short animations. The animations combine abstract
and figurative forms.
Pointpole, by contrast, is utterly abstract.
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Cliccando su ‘Marvin’,
invece, si aprono di seguito le finestre ‘Toolbox’, ‘Toolbox
Handbook’, e ‘Details’, da cui sono scaricabili le singole
animazioni. Ciascuna animazione è differente, e vuole essere esplorata.
Alcune animazioni vengono mostrate a ripetizione; altre nascondono aree interattive
cliccando sulle quali lo spettatore accede ad ulteriori animazioni. Per esempio,
da Pleasurefield si diramano altre 12 brevi animazioni che combinano forme
astratte e figurative. Pointhole, invece, contiene forme completamente astratte.
‘ Exit’, infine, copnduce a una pagina di congedo, dalla quale tutte
le finestre correntemente aperte vengono chiuse.
Lee Marvin Toolbox è realizzato in JavaScript.
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Lee Marvin Toolbox was awarded the Kunstpreis 2001 Medienforum
München
(Artprize of Mediaforum Munich, Germany).
Lee Marvin Toolbox contains nine imaginary tools for organising existence:
Confrontation Fence, Corner Plug, Decision Clapper, Existence
Sirene, Hand
Rope, Pleasurefield, Pointpole, Sheltering Skin, Viewing
Point. These tools
are described in
a Handbook and complementary animations. A soundtrack to the work is a
cover version of the song Wandering Star sung by the artist (originally
sung by Lee Marvin in the Western Comedy Paint your Wagon, 1969). On opening,
a small window offers a choice to click either ‘Lee’ or ‘Marvin’.
Upon
clicking ‘Lee’, the user accesses the ‘Store Room’,
where he can download all the work components as MP3, Pdf and Projector
files.
If the user clicks on ‘Marvin’, the system takes him to a ‘Toolbox’ section,
and then to ‘Toolbox Handbook’, and eventually to the individual
pages, where clicking on ‘Details’ opens the single animations.
Each animation is different, each needs to be explored. Some run in
a continuous loop, but most have stops and buttons that need to be
discovered, choices
have to be made. For example, Pleasurefield has roll over buttons that
trigger 12 short animations. The animations combine abstract and figurative
forms. Pointpole, by contrast, is utterly abstract.
Finally, ‘Exit’ opens a goodbye page, and all open windows
are closed.
Lee Marvin Toolbox is constructed in various small JavaScript windows,
which form a graphic pattern on the screen, and avoid the browser interface.
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Production
date: 2001
place: London & München
programming: Kenneth Kufluk & Richard Smallwood
musical production: Alan Gregg
producer: Medienforum München
Technical Data:
browsers: Internet Explorer 5.x +
Plug-ins: Flash5Player Plug-in
other: Javascript, Pop-up windows must be enabled
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