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David Vrbík at the White Night Tel Aviv 29. 6. 2017

As in previous years the traditional White Night Festival in Tel Aviv will be held with Czech participation. The motto of 2017 is Performance and Czech  audiovisual artist David Vrbik will appear with his Laser String instrument on 29. 6. 2017 at 8pm on the Rotschild Boulevard. It is an interactive installation and apart from the main performance by the artist, the visitors will be also able to play it. The event is organized by Czech Centre Tel Aviv in collaboration with the Embassy of the Czech Republic.
 

The audiovisual artist David Vrbík began his artistic career with music. In the 90s he created compositions for dance theatre, and later began focusing on animation and programming theatrical technologies. He is a founding member of the dance group TOW, which created a stir in the dance community with its approach to technology, particularly the synchronization of audio, light, and laser projection. 

David Vrbík

David Vrbík

In 2004, along with the hip-hop and graffiti legend Vladimír 518, he founded the multigenre project SPAM, which focuses on researching the possibilities of audiovisual language. Since then SPAM has produced several performances. He is well known to attendees of the SIGNAL Festival Prague.

Spectacular Laser String is a unique apparatus that is a cross between a musical instrument and art object. It consists of a ray of light that uses the newest technological principles to act like the actual string of a musical instrument when touched – it quivers, produces sound, then fades naturally.

David Vrbík

David Vrbík

Created in the year 2008, its development continues to this day. It first appeared at the gala ball for the commencement of the Czech presidency of the EU in Brussels. In 2012 five such strings symbolized the Olympic rings at the opening of the Czech Olympic Building at the Summer Olympic Games in London; the strings also played a charming role in the music video for the song Evropa by the band WWW, and in 2013 were featured at Bratislava’s European Researcher’s Night. 

Also noteworthy is the use of this system for providing laser photography. A laser beam scans the space and the reflected light is transformed into an audio signal, which is then converted to a bitmap.