Rhapsody by Tinhoko

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Tinhoko
Tinhoko is artist and designer, Tina Hochkogler. She is based in Vienna, Austria. Tina studied at Graphische Lehr und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna. From 1997-2000 she was a member of the art collective, re-p.org. Currently Tinhoko works in many diverse fields of digital imaging. She creates abstract artworks which combine sound and visual experiences.

Her past works have included _relifted , Spatial Lines and chache . She has exhibited around the world, including at festivals such as Avanto in Helsinki, Finland; the Internationale Kurzfilmtage in Oberhausen, Germany; the Underground Film Festival , New York, USA; Rencontres Audiovisuelles in Lille, France; Transmediale in Berlin, Germany and Sound Journey in Tenerife, Spain. At the Backup Festival in Weimar, Germany in 2000, Tinhoko won a prize for her video work _relifted. Her work is distributed by the label, Sixpack Film in Vienna.

Rhapsody

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Development Date: 2005
Tips: Use the mouse pointer to create dots and lines on screen and trigger sound & visual events

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Part interactive story, part audiovisual tool, Rhapsody is a new work created for Dots & Lines by Austrian artist, Tinhiko. In this work the artist presents us with the concept of non-linear story telling as the score. Tinkino's collaborator, writer Matthias Goldmann, sets the scene for Rhapsody in his introductory text:

"Imagine a digital age Alice returning from a string of Wonderland encounters. She is ready to step through the looking glass into new virtual worlds. Her daydreams take the form of pixels, particles, waves, and elements that make up our on-screen mirror imagery. The resulting animation zooms in on the cool chemistry of the birth process of images"

Users explore an abstracted account of Alice's encounters by moving their mouse within an interactive environment. As with more traditional forms of musical story telling, the narrative within Rhapsody is divided into sections, each one with its own character. Visual forms, resembling the 'dots' evoked in the exhibition title, combine to make pixilated lines. The visual 'dots' and 'lines' represent a navigation system to allow users to move through the audio-visual storyline and trigger new events. The two dots in the upper left corner can be used to enter the second and third episode of the unfolding tale. The trace-routes created by Tinhoko's 'dots' record the users' pattern of movement through the narrative, and present us with a visualisation of the composition as it unfolds. These 'dots' are, in effect, a score.