Barcode djs makes you think about trash and waste in different ways. When considering word trash, we can mean classic garbage, or bullshit coming out from mainstream culture. Here we think about booth means in parallel way.
Every package of product found in supermarkets around the globe, carries barcode for identification at cash desk. These ID’s are barcodes, connecting word of trash with word of capitalism. Each barcode is unique, so each product can have different individuality. Barcode DJ’s are using these individualities, to control custom made software based on open source software model.
We use scanners which are used by markets right now, and open software highlighting independence and freedom.
We point on trash overload, problem of the whole world. We use terms recycling, reusing, trash handling, junkyards, sustainability to point out one of the important global problems, The trash!
BEATA KOLBAŠOVSKÁ & JAKUB PIŠEK (SLOVAKIA) Barcode DJ’s is live multimedia performance in grocery store or on stage. It’s a contravention of stereotypes in thousands markets with beeping barcode readers nonstop. Barcode DJs makes you think about trash and waste in different ways. When considering word trash, we can mean classic garbage, or bullshit coming out from mainstream culture. Here we think about booth means in parallel way. Every package of product found in supermarkets around the globe, carries barcode for identification at cash desk. These ID’s are barcodes, connecting word of trash with word of capitalism. Each barcode is unique, so each product can have different individuality. Barcode DJ’s are using these individualities, to control custom made software based on open source software model. We use scanners which are used by markets right now, and open software highlighting independence and freedom. We point on trash overload, problem of the whole world. We use terms recycling, reusing, trash handling, junkyards, sustainability to point out one of the important global problems, The trash! are young new media artists from Slovakia working with multimedia, site specific, interactivity, projection mapping and public space.
photos courtesy of the artist
