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VinylVideo™ presents: a new Picture Disk by Effi & Amir (vv rec.no. 26)
VinylVideo™ is a new, wonderous and fascinating development in the history of audio-visual media. For the first time in the history of technological invention, VinylVideo™ makes possible the storage of video (moving image plus sound) on analog long-play records. Playback from the VinylVideo™ Picture Disk is made possible with the VinylVideo™ Unit which consists of a normal turntable, a special conversion box (the VinylVideo™ Home Kit) and a television set.
The current installation at the Digital Art Lab presents a specially commissioned work by Israeli artists Effi & Amir: "NEAR EAST- a souvenir album from the Zeppelin Orient Tour ".
This record aims to revive an extinct vinyl format: the souvenir album - special record releases, printed in commemoration of a noteworthy (usually national, historical) event. And it also aims to revive a forgotten incident.
In 1929 the German airship Graf Zeppelin LZ-127 made its first "Orient Tour". It departed from Friedrichshafen, entered Palestine above Haifa bay, circled above Palestine for a few hours and then returned to its base. This event, though extremely attractive, from both air and ground, was hardly documented. In the "Near East" album, Effi and Amir reconstruct the historical event based on facts and fantasies. The 2-sided structure is used to tell a 2-sided story; "side A" takes the local point of view and "side B" - that of the passengers.
VinylVideo™ is an invention by Gebhard Sengmüller, in collaboration with Martin Diamant, Günter Erhart and Best Before.