For the FIFA World Cup 2014, our artist Stefan Mildenberger has created MASS #12 (World Cup 2014).
This audio-visual work of art, that is more understood as a sculpture then to be a video, is made of the national anthems and national flags of the countries participating in the World Cup 2014 in Brazil and responds to Mildenberger’s previous works that deal with media overload.
The individual national anthems of each country (Brazil, Japan, Australia, Iran, South Korea, Italy, Netherlands, Argentina, USA, Costa Rica, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, Colombia, Russia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, England, Spain, Honduras, Chile, Ecuador, Greece, Portugal, France, Croatia, Uruguay, Mexico, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Ghana, Algeria) are heard at the same time and play continuously in a loop. All 32 country flags have been fused in the same proportion to each other by a complex mathematical algorithm, which results in a digital (moving) image with subtle changes over time.
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