Karolina Breguła
Video Camera
Karolina Breguła’s Video Camera records a for-camera performance showing the imperfection of language as a form of communication. The artist makes simple gestures that facilitate the understanding of the video camera’s operating instructions, read off-screen in a dozen or so European languages. This humorous work shows how much more informative the language
of gestures recorded on video is than the same lines spoken in national languages. Breguła’s work is formal in nature, dealing with the medium itself, where video is both the means and the object of analysis; the artist herself is also both the subject and the object of artistic expression. In 2007, Breguła won third place with this film in the Samsung Art Master competition for “a witty commentary on the intersection of technology and art, created using simple means.”
Karolina Breguła
(b. 1979) a multimedia artist, filmmaker, and academic. She holds an MA in Photography from the Film, Television and Theatre School in Łódź, where in 2016 she earned her PhD at the Department of Cinematography and Television Production. She currently runs the Social Film Workshop at the Faculty of Media Art at the Academy of Art in Szczecin, where she is an assistant professor.