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the chrono-files
from time-based art to database
opening: 7.2.2003, 7p.m.
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With Jörg Auzinger, Michael Aschauer, Maia Gusberti, Sepp Deinhofer und Nik
Thoenen, Peter Cornwell, Anja Krautgasser, infossil, Niki Passath, Axel
Heide und Onesandzeros, Philip Pocock und Gregor Stehle
Digital technology has transformed how we communicate, record data or how we
store information. Individual and collective memory data represent a new
material culture in which the value of the original is determined not by its
aura but by its worldwide availability. The duration of this culture is
characterised by the fragility of storage hardware, its dependence on
energy, the continuous transferral of data onto new hardware and the
necessary adaptation to new technical norms. The projects being presented in
the lothringer13/halle as part of the exhibition “the chrono-files” are
devoted to questions surrounding the temporary nature of stored data, its
material features and the potential of a digital archive comprising all
formats: texts, language, images, films, music and useable data all being
digitally stored. Whilst film or video contain chemically or magnetically
fixed information that is selected using a prescribed technique, in the
computer-based arts it is the programmes written by the artists themselves
that determine which images and sounds are rendered from this data in
real-time. Events of the present, whether at the same place or on the Net,
are variables of algorithms that influence the shape of the artwork.
In “switch enlightment” Jörg Auzinger (Austria) reflects the confrontations
of traditional media storage (such as books) with electronic forms of
communication. “./logicaland” is a socio-political online game developed by
Michael Aschauer, Maia Gusberti, Sepp Deinhofer and Nik Thoenen (Austria)
that examines the access to the Net and consequently to the global digital
archive. Peter Cornwell (GB) designed “MetaPlex”, the vision of a “museum
without walls" (McLuhan) of the present, enabling three-dimensional access
to video films from diverse archives (ICA, ZKM, lothringer13/spiegel). Anja
Krautgasser (Austria) uses <IP-III> to demonstrate the synthetic
transformation of data used on the Net into three-dimensional architecture
and sound (music: Dieter Kovacic). infossil (Germany) describes the
principle of energy and information. The robot by Niki Passath (Austria)
generates images from the Internet before then tattooing them onto human
skin. As part of “unmovie.org” Axel Heide, Onesandzeros, Philip Pocock and
Gregor Stehle (Germany/France) passed a databank of anonymous films on to
‘programmed’ agents whose online discussions influence the film selection
through key-words. Via a WirelessLan the visitors are enabled to use
laptops situated throughout the whole area of lothringer13 to merely observe
or even influence the agents’ discussions, which in turn influences the
video stream. The co-operation with “unmovie.org” is the beginning of the
long-term art infrastructure project artchalking.org, sponsored by
[m]Medienforum Muenchen e.V.
The exhibition was organised in co-operation with the University of Applied
Art in Vienna and artchalking, [m]Medienforum Muenchen e.V., Press- and
Information Office City of Munich (www.muenchen.de) and is sponsored by M”
net – Telekommunikation für München und Bayern and Street Vision Ltd.,
London.
Curators: Margit Rosen and Dr Christian Schoen
A catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
the chrono-files
from time-based art to database
opening: 7.2.2003, 7p.m.
Duration:
8.2. bis 9. März 2003
Tue-Sun 1p.m. - 7p.m.
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