MATJAŽ POGAČNIK & JAKOB LAVRIČ: Bad Picture [Supernova cycle]
interactive light installation
Križanke walls, Križanke Park // until 14 June
OPENING: Friday, 23 May, at 9:30 p.m.

The interactive project Bad Picture thematises visual image disturbances and their impact on the perception of the viewer, who has an active role in the maintenance of a given visual image. The project consists of two loopholes through which two screens can be observed alongside a soundscape. The structure of the images on the screens is gradually breaking down in real time, which the viewer can temporarily prevent by moving the antenna. The degradation of the image quality is accompanied by flickering lights and increasing noise, which eventually drowns out the original sound. The work thus speaks in a metaphorical way about disruption, or a wider systemic collapse that can, at best, be slowed down, not prevented.

MATJAŽ POGAČNIK is a 3rd year student of Computer Science at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science, University of Ljubljana. He is interested in audiovisual installations that combine modern technology with art and creativity. JAKOB LAVRIČ is a student of multimedia at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana. Currently, he is an exchange student at the Technical University of Berlin, at the Department of Generative and Computational Arts, at the University of Arts (UdK). As an author, he is interested in spatial sound, 3D modelling and digital visualisations. In 2024, both Pogačnik and Lavrič participated in the Lighting Guerrilla Festival’s Spark project, where they transformed a street lamp into an interactive artwork.