Toustovač 2024 Read "RKM Interviews Dan Senn"	Vyjednává (see video) 4K Video with Stereo Sound by Dan Senn Duration 4:41 minutes (Click banner image to enlarge)
Toustovač Vyjednává was filmed in 2024 in Holešovice, Prague, at the corner of Argentinská and U Průhonu (streets). The English title, "A Toaster Negotiates" refers to a failed manual kitchen toaster that seves here as a found insturment. It is about to be tossed into the Electro recycle bin. This sound track, in variation, is called "Toaster" and is part of the Flat Works collection. This film is comprised of rhythmic video mappings of a group of recycle bins, at one location, using a process closely related to the sound improvisations. Read RKM Interview of Dan Senn.	As the objects are similar, but for graffiti, labeling and dirt, a perceptual reconstruction occurs in the viewing. This method of image mapping, again, is related, analogously, to the sound improvisation, the mediums merged in the final editing. As an interdisciplinary artist most often working alone, I have used mixed intermedia strategies as a way of communicating meaning unknown to myself and, perhaps, to the patrons experiencing the work, a process that enables perceptual discovery that is neither simple reportage nor propagandistic. DS062524	Dan Senn (Prague-Watertown) is an intermedia artist working in music composition and production, kinetic sound sculpture, experimental and documentary film. He has been a professor of music and art in the United States and Australia and travels internationally as a lecturer, performer and installation artist. He lives in Prague where he directs the Echofluxx festivals, and Watertown, Wisconsin, the USA. Dan's work moves freely between expressive extremes and languages depending upon the aesthetic joust at hand. Dan is cofounder of Roulette Intermedium in New York City, Cascadia Composers of Portland Oregon, and the Echofluxx media festivals in Prague. (read more).