Project “TV has attacked us all our lives, now we fight back. Now we make our own TV/Nam June Paik” on TV channel "Odesa" in Ukraine is dedicated to issuing actual video art and media activism, documentation, and fixation of actual performance, a slide show of photography art, audiovisual works in the context of visual and media culture, films in the context of actual art.
In December 2015-March 2016 curatorial selections of Zachęta National Gallery of Art walk-through video documentation of exhibitions are being broadcast on TV Channel "Odesa" in Ukraine within project "TV has attacked us all our lives, now we fight back. Now we make our own TV/Nam June Paik". In addition to video documentation, the translated text summaries of temporary shows staged by Zachęta National Gallery of Art are supposed to facilitate access to art education for the local Odessa region community. Particular attention was paid to outstanding teamwork details as it’s important to remember the importance of teamwork. These broadcast selections capture 1991-2010-s time trends or radical trends in exposition and representation of art in Zachęta National Gallery of Art in the Republic of Poland. It is necessary to mention that the history of exhibitions is going through the extensive interest of the professional community and it is established as a subject of academic research.
This work would not have been possible without the advice and support of Marta Miś from Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Iryna Kovalchuk, and Anna Stelmaszczyk from Adam Mickiewicz Institute and Culture.pl.
Cultural Data Sets of Zachęta National Gallery of Art walk-through video documentation of exhibitions were analyzed automatically with computers with ImageJ and ImagePlot software developed by Software Studies Initiative.
Measuring visual features was explored through a methodology using Cultural Analytics. 2D visual representations that use a polar coordinate system to display two sets of numerical values describing data reveal interesting patterns and perceptual aspects of visual differences. This work investigates the tendency of new imaging systems in future Earth.
“Cultural Analytics a new paradigm for the study, teaching and public presentation of cultural artifacts, dynamics, and flows.” - Cultural Analytics: Visualising Cultural Patterns in the Era of “More Media” by Lev Manovich Published in DOMUS (Milan), Spring 2009. “Being able to examine a set of images along a singular visual dimension is a powerful mechanism of defamiliarization – a device for seeing what we could have not noticed previously. Now we can use software to defamiliarize our perceptions of visual and media cultures.” - How to Compare One Million Images? by Dr. Lev Manovich, Dr. Jeremy Douglass, Tara Zepel, 2011. Software Studies Initiative research was made possible by the generous support provided by California Institute for Telecommunication and Information (Calit2), the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts at UCSD (CRCA), and Chancellor Office of University of California, San Diego (UCSD). The development of ImagePlot software was funded by NEH 2010‐2011 Digital Startup level II grant “Interactive Visualization of Image Collections for Humanities Research.”
33'18” minutes broadcast on TV channel “Odesa” on 19 December 2015 in Ukraine was visualized as image plot included walk-through video documentation of Zachęta National Gallery of Art exhibitions “Warszawa-Moskwa / Moskwa - Warszawa 1900-2000” 20.11.2004-30.01.2005; “Arcydzieła malarstwa polskiego w zbiorach Lwowskiej Galerii Sztuki” 13.12.2003-4.01.2004; “Inne miasto, inne życie. Mały Salon” 09.04.-31.07.2008. 4757 frames were visualized according to quantitative descriptions of their visual properties (features) measured with digital image processing techniques. Median brightness (average of greyscale values for the pixels in an image) and median saturation (average of saturation, i.e. purity of color for each pixel in an image) are mapped into a polar coordinate system. Measurements of brightness and saturation fall within 0-255 range. The Video file was exported as a sequence of frames. The frame rate conversion process decimated by 10 was made in VirtualDub v1.10.4 licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The image set was examined for appropriate image format and then was measured with ImageJ built-in command ImageMeasure. 2D visual representation was made by Mariia Gonchar.
32'51” minutes broadcast on TV channel “Odesa” on 20 December 2015 in Ukraine was visualized as image plot included walk-through video documentation of Zachęta National Gallery of Art exhibitions “Nowa strefa. Sztuka chińska” 2.12.2003-1.02.2004; “Wystawa Otwierając drzwi? Sztuka białoruska dzisiaj” 24.05.2011 - 20.08.2011. 4702 frames were visualized according to quantitative descriptions of their visual properties (features) measured with digital image processing techniques. Median brightness (average of greyscale values for the pixels in an image) and median saturation (average of saturation, i.e. purity of color for each pixel in an image) are mapped into a polar coordinate system. Measurements of brightness and saturation fall within 0-255 range. The Video file was exported as a sequence of frames. The frame rate conversion process decimated by 10 was made in VirtualDub v1.10.4 licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The image set was examined for appropriate image format and then was measured with ImageJ built-in command ImageMeasure. 2D visual representation was made by Mariia Gonchar.
32'29” minutes broadcast on TV channel “Odesa” on 26 December 2015 in Ukraine was visualized as image plot included walk-through video documentation of Zachęta National Gallery of Art exhibitions “Pokolenie przemiany. Nowa sztuka z Indii” 3.09.-6.11.2011; “Dada East? Rumuńskie konteksty dadaizmu” 16.05.-29.06.2008; “Szczególne miejsca. Idee do zamieszkania. Kolekcja Sztuki Współczesnej Fundacji “la Caixa” 6.07.-2.09.2007. 4521 frames were visualized according to quantitative descriptions of their visual properties (features) measured with digital image processing techniques. Median brightness (average of greyscale values for the pixels in an image) and median saturation (average of saturation, i.e. purity of color for each pixel in an image) are mapped into a polar coordinate system. Measurements of brightness and saturation fall within 0-255 range. The Video file was exported as a sequence of frames. The frame rate conversion process decimated by 10 was made in VirtualDub v1.10.4 licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The image set was examined for appropriate image format and then was measured with ImageJ built-in command ImageMeasure. 2D visual representation was made by Mariia Gonchar.
32'31” minutes broadcast on TV channel “Odesa” on 27 December 2015 in Ukraine was visualized as image plot included walk-through video documentation of Zachęta National Gallery of Art exhibitions "Szczęśliwi Outsiderzy z Londynu I Szkocji” 24.05.-14.07.2002; “ars viva 04/05. Czas” 24.05.-26.06.2005; “Polska – Japonia, Europa – Daleki Wschód. Projekty Ingarden & Ewy Architekci. Mały Salon” 14.10-20.11.2005. 4694 frames were visualized according to quantitative descriptions of their visual properties (features) measured with digital image processing techniques. Median brightness (average of greyscale values for the pixels in an image) and median saturation (average of saturation, i.e. purity of color for each pixel in an image) are mapped into a polar coordinate system. Measurements of brightness and saturation fall within 0-255 range. The Video file was exported as a sequence of frames. The frame rate conversion process decimated by 10 was made in VirtualDub v1.10.4 licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The image set was examined for appropriate image format and then was measured with ImageJ built-in command ImageMeasure. 2D visual representation was made by Mariia Gonchar.
33'03” minutes broadcast on TV channel “Odesa” on 2 January 2016 in Ukraine was visualized as image plot included walk-through video documentation of Zachęta National Gallery of Art exhibition “Przedwiośnie. Sztuka polska 1880-1920” 21.01-3.03.2002. 4916 frames were visualized according to quantitative descriptions of their visual properties (features) measured with digital image processing techniques. Median brightness (average of greyscale values for the pixels in an image) and median saturation (average of saturation, i.e. purity of color for each pixel in an image) are mapped into a polar coordinate system. Measurements of brightness and saturation fall within 0-255 range. The Video file was exported as a sequence of frames. The frame rate conversion process decimated by 10 was made in VirtualDub v1.10.4 licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The image set was examined for appropriate image format and then was measured with ImageJ built-in command ImageMeasure. 2D visual representation was made by Mariia Gonchar.
33'09” minutes broadcast on TV channel “Odesa” on 3 January 2016 in Ukraine was visualized as image plot included walk-through video documentation of Zachęta National Gallery of Art exhibition “Przedwiośnie. Sztuka polska 1880-1920” 21.01-3.03.2002. 4208 frames were visualized according to quantitative descriptions of their visual properties (features) measured with digital image processing techniques. Median brightness (average of greyscale values for the pixels in an image) and median saturation (average of saturation, i.e. purity of color for each pixel in an image) are mapped into a polar coordinate system. Measurements of brightness and saturation fall within 0-255 range. The Video file was exported as a sequence of frames. The frame rate conversion process decimated by 10 was made in VirtualDub v1.10.4 licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The image set was examined for appropriate image format and then was measured with ImageJ built-in command ImageMeasure. 2D visual representation was made by Mariia Gonchar.
30'46” minutes broadcast on TV channel “Odesa” in 9 January 2016 in Ukraine was visualized as image plot included walk-through video documentation of Zachęta National Gallery of Art exhibitions "Przedwiośnie. Sztuka polska 1880-1920" 21.01-3.03.2002; “To nie jest wystawa” 26.02.-4.05.2008. 4035 frames were visualized according to quantitative descriptions of their visual properties (features) measured with digital image processing techniques. Median brightness (average of greyscale values for the pixels in an image) and median saturation (average of saturation, i.e. purity of color for each pixel in an image) are mapped into a polar coordinate system. Measurements of brightness and saturation fall within 0-255 range. The Video file was exported as a sequence of frames. The frame rate conversion process decimated by 10 was made in VirtualDub v1.10.4 licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The image set was examined for appropriate image format and then was measured with ImageJ built-in command ImageMeasure. 2D visual representation was made by Mariia Gonchar.
31'01” minutes broadcast on TV channel “Odesa” on 10 January 2016 in Ukraine was visualized as image plot included walk-through video documentation of Zachęta National Gallery of Art exhibitions “Rzeczywistości. Kolekcje bez granic II” 6.09-16.11.2003; “Fernand Leger. Od malarstwa do architektury” 7.06-20.08.2006, “Zbigniew Dłubak. Fotografie z lat 1947-1950, 1983-2000” 21.10-23.11.2003. 4576 frames were visualized according to quantitative descriptions of their visual properties (features) measured with digital image processing techniques. Median brightness (average of greyscale values for the pixels in an image) and median saturation (average of saturation, i.e. purity of color for each pixel in an image) are mapped into a polar coordinate system. Measurements of brightness and saturation fall within 0-255 range. The Video file was exported as a sequence of frames. The frame rate conversion process decimated by 10 was made in VirtualDub v1.10.4 licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The image set was examined for appropriate image format and then was measured with ImageJ built-in command ImageMeasure. 2D visual representation was made by Mariia Gonchar.
33'04” minutes broadcast on TV channel “Odesa” on 16 January 2016 in Ukraine was visualized as image plot included walk-through video documentation of Zachęta National Gallery of Art exhibition “Nowocześni 1948-1954 (I Wystawa Sztuki Nowoczesnej. 50 lat pozniej)” 10.04-10.05.2000. 4839 frames were visualized according to quantitative descriptions of their visual properties (features) measured with digital image processing techniques. Median brightness (average of greyscale values for the pixels in an image) and median saturation (average of saturation, i.e. purity of color for each pixel in an image) are mapped into a polar coordinate system. Measurements of brightness and saturation fall within 0-255 range. The Video file was exported as a sequence of frames. The frame rate conversion process decimated by 10 was made in VirtualDub v1.10.4 licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The image set was examined for appropriate image format and then was measured with ImageJ built-in command ImageMeasure. 2D visual representation was made by Mariia Gonchar.
32'38” minutes broadcast on TV channel “Odesa” on 17 January 2016 in Ukraine was visualized as image plot included walk-through video documentation of Zachęta National Gallery of Art exhibition “100 lat kina w Polsce” 19.12.1995-14.01.1996. 4834 frames were visualized according to quantitative descriptions of their visual properties (features) measured with digital image processing techniques. Median brightness (average of greyscale values for the pixels in an image) and median saturation (average of saturation, i.e. purity of color for each pixel in an image) are mapped into a polar coordinate system. Measurements of brightness and saturation fall within 0-255 range. The Video file was exported as a sequence of frames. The frame rate conversion process decimated by 10 was made in VirtualDub v1.10.4 licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The image set was examined for appropriate image format and then was measured with ImageJ built-in command ImageMeasure. 2D visual representation was made by Mariia Gonchar.
32'43” minutes broadcast on TV channel “Odesa” on 23 January 2016 in Ukraine was visualized as image plot included walk-through video documentation of Zachęta National Gallery of Art exhibition “100 lat kina w Polsce” 19.12.1995-14.01.1996. 4862 frames were visualized according to quantitative descriptions of their visual properties (features) measured with digital image processing techniques. Median brightness (average of greyscale values for the pixels in an image) and median saturation (average of saturation, i.e. purity of color for each pixel in an image) are mapped into a polar coordinate system. Measurements of brightness and saturation fall within 0-255 range. The Video file was exported as a sequence of frames. The frame rate conversion process decimated by 10 was made in VirtualDub v1.10.4 licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The image set was examined for appropriate image format and then was measured with ImageJ built-in command ImageMeasure. 2D visual representation was made by Mariia Gonchar.
30'11” minutes broadcast on TV channel “Odesa” on 24 January 2016 in Ukraine was visualized as image plot included walk-through video documentation of Zachęta National Gallery of Art exhibitions “100 lat kina w Polsce” 19.12.1995-14.01.1996; “Grupa Krakowska 1932-1984" 15.04.-15.05.1994. 4455 frames were visualized according to quantitative descriptions of their visual properties (features) measured with digital image processing techniques. Median brightness (average of greyscale values for the pixels in an image) and median saturation (average of saturation, i.e. purity of color for each pixel in an image) are mapped into a polar coordinate system. Measurements of brightness and saturation fall within 0-255 range. The Video file was exported as a sequence of frames. The frame rate conversion process decimated by 10 was made in VirtualDub v1.10.4 licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The image set was examined for appropriate image format and then was measured with ImageJ built-in command ImageMeasure. 2D visual representation was made by Mariia Gonchar.
32'31” minutes broadcast on TV channel “Odesa” on 30 January 2016 in Ukraine was visualized as image plot included walk-through video documentation of Zachęta National Gallery of Art exhibitions “Szyk polski” 29.01-24.02.1991; “Powinność i bunt. Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Warszawie 1944-2004" 18.09-24.10.2004. 4802 frames were visualized according to quantitative descriptions of their visual properties (features) measured with digital image processing techniques. Median brightness (average of greyscale values for the pixels in an image) and median saturation (average of saturation, i.e. purity of color for each pixel in an image) are mapped into a polar coordinate system. Measurements of brightness and saturation fall within 0-255 range. The Video file was exported as a sequence of frames. The frame rate conversion process decimated by 10 was made in VirtualDub v1.10.4 licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The image set was examined for appropriate image format and then measured with ImageJ built-in command ImageMeasure. 2D visual representation was made by Mariia Gonchar.
34'34” minutes broadcast on TV channel “Odesa” on 31 January 2016 in Ukraine was visualized as image plot included walk-through video documentation of Zachęta National Gallery of Art exhibition “Sztuka wszędzie. Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Warszawie 1904-1944” 04.06.-26.08.2012. 4985 frames were visualized according to quantitative descriptions of their visual properties (features) measured with digital image processing techniques. Median brightness (average of greyscale values for the pixels in an image) and median saturation (average of saturation, i.e. purity of color for each pixel in an image) are mapped into a polar coordinate system. Measurements of brightness and saturation fall within 0-255 range. The Video file was exported as a sequence of frames. The frame rate conversion process decimated by 10 was made in VirtualDub v1.10.4 licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The image set was examined for appropriate image format and then was measured with ImageJ built-in command ImageMeasure. 2D visual representation was made by Mariia Gonchar.
31'32” minutes broadcast on TV channel “Odesa” on 6 February 2016 in Ukraine was visualized as image plot included walk-through video documentation of Zachęta National Gallery of Art exhibition “Sztuka wszędzie. Akademia Sztuk Pięknych w Warszawie 1904-1944” 04.06.-26.08.2012. 4658 frames were visualized according to quantitative descriptions of their visual properties (features) measured with digital image processing techniques. Median brightness (average of greyscale values for the pixels in an image) and median saturation (average of saturation, i.e. purity of color for each pixel in an image) are mapped into a polar coordinate system. Measurements of brightness and saturation fall within 0-255 range. The Video file was exported as a sequence of frames. The frame rate conversion process decimated by 10 was made in VirtualDub v1.10.4 licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The image set was examined for appropriate image format and then was measured with ImageJ built-in command ImageMeasure. 2D visual representation was made by Mariia Gonchar.
33'53” minutes broadcast on TV channel “Odesa” on 7 February 2016 in Ukraine was visualized as image plot included walk-through video documentation of Zachęta National Gallery of Art exhibitions “Boznańska nieznana” 16.12.2005-29.01.2006; “Katarzyna Kobro 1898-1951” 17.01-20.02.2000; “Wanda Paklikowska-Winnicka 1911-2001” 13.07.-26.08.2007; “Alina Szapocznikow 1926-1973, wystawa retrospektywna” 18.05-5.07.1998. 4933 frames were visualized according to quantitative descriptions of their visual properties (features) measured with digital image processing techniques. Median brightness (average of greyscale values for the pixels in an image) and median saturation (average of saturation, i.e. purity of color for each pixel in an image) are mapped into a polar coordinate system. Measurements of brightness and saturation fall within 0-255 range. The Video file was exported as a sequence of frames. The frame rate conversion process decimated by 10 was made in VirtualDub v1.10.4 licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The image set was examined for appropriate image format and then was measured with ImageJ built-in command ImageMeasure. 2D visual representation was made by Mariia Gonchar.
30'14” minutes broadcast on TV channel “Odesa” on 13 February 2016 in Ukraine was visualized as image plot included walk-through video documentation of Zachęta National Gallery of Art exhibitions “Dokumentalistki. Polskie fotografki XX wieku” 17.03.-18.05.2008; “Alina Ślesińska 1922-1994” 7.12.2007-24.02.2008; “Hanna i Gabriel Rechowiczowie. Obrazy w architekturze. Kordegarda” 11.03.-4.05.2011, “Ania Witkowska. Adam Witkowski. Domownicy. Projekt Kordegarda” 15.01.-27.02.2011. 4242 frames were visualized according to quantitative descriptions of their visual properties (features) measured with digital image processing techniques. Median brightness (average of greyscale values for the pixels in an image) and median saturation (average of saturation, i.e. purity of color for each pixel in an image) are mapped into a polar coordinate system. Measurements of brightness and saturation fall within 0-255 range. The Video file was exported as a sequence of frames. The frame rate conversion process decimated by 10 was made in VirtualDub v1.10.4 licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The image set was examined for appropriate image format and then was measured with ImageJ built-in command ImageMeasure. 2D visual representation was made by Mariia Gonchar.
30'21” minutes broadcast on TV channel “Odesa” on 14 February 2016 in Ukraine was visualized as image plot included walk-through video documentation of Zachęta National Gallery of Art exhibitions “Spojrzenia 2003. Nagroda Fundacji Deutsche Bank” 15.11.-9.12.2003, “Spojrzenia 2005. II edycja. Nagroda Fundacji Deutsche Bank” 24.10.-27.11.2005, “Przerwane połączenia. Mały Salon” 27.10-26.11.2006, “Pole gry” 28.05.-31.07.2010. 4305 frames were visualized according to quantitative descriptions of their visual properties (features) measured with digital image processing techniques. Median brightness (average of greyscale values for the pixels in an image) and median saturation (average of saturation, i.e. purity of color for each pixel in an image) are mapped into a polar coordinate system. Measurements of brightness and saturation fall within 0-255 range. The Video file was exported as a sequence of frames. The frame rate conversion process decimated by 10 was made in VirtualDub v1.10.4 licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). The image set was examined for appropriate image format and then was measured with ImageJ built-in command ImageMeasure. 2D visual representation was made by Mariia Gonchar.
Additional thanks to the advice and support of Marta Miś from Zachęta National Gallery of Art, Iryna Kovalchuk, and Anna Stelmaszczyk from Adam Mickiewicz Institute and Culture.pl. in Warsaw in Poland, TV channel "Odesa" in Ukraine.
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INSPIRATION:
Lev Manovich. Cultural Analytics: Visualizing Cultural Patterns in the Era of 'More Media'. DOMUS, Spring 2009.
