Bojan Gagić: 12 mrtvih ptica / 12 dead birds
Inspired by the declaration of digital media as a new digital continent by the Catholic Church (2009, Pope Benedict XVI), as well as by the technique of incorrect translations, Bojan Gagić created a multimedia spatial and sound installation that emphasizes the research of genetic sequences within a digital medium.
The material he analyses is not organic, but a digital record created by converting one digital format into another; photos into text, by simply changing the file extension (.jpg - .txt). From the resulting UNICODE/ASCII translation of the binary code, the software extracts the DNA code and protein sequences, which in turn are converted into sound recordings using the conversion software.
