Robert Henke’s audiovisual project CBM 8032 AV uses five Commodore CBM 8032 computers from 1980 to create all sounds, graphics, and the overall structure in time. This work is about the ambivalence between a contemporary aesthetic and obsolete limited technology from 43 years ago. Everything presented within the project could have been done in the last century, but it needs the cultural backdrop of today to come up with the artistic ideas driving it.

Robert Henke´s works cover a wide spectrum, from musical compositions and concerts to large-scale audiovisual installations. They rely on technology for their creation and performance, and they often require to invent and construct algorithms and machines.
His music is inspired by the raw repetitive power celebrated in techno culture and the complex, refined structures and rich textures of more abstract contemporary works. Henke´s visual works stands on the shoulders of minimal art and the early computer graphics pioneers.

The video is produced by A4 as part of New Perspectives for Action, a project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union and supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council and Bratislava City Foundation.

The video was created also by volunteers, as part of a project supported by the European Solidarity Corps program.

Video: Daniel Kazankov & Michal Vasiľ & Debora Pastirčáková & Paula Díaz & Eduarda Palmeira
Interview: Debora Pastirčáková