Y O U . O W N . M E . N O W . U N T I L . Y O U . F O R G E T . A B O U T . M E. |
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À
la recherche du temps perdu Karl Heinz Jeron *1962, lives and works in Berlin/Germany http://khjeron.de Valie Djordjevic *1967, lives and works in Berlin/Germany http://valid.de |
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the homonymous performance Marcel Proust's novel À la recherche
du temps perdu (2005) is first coded into zeros and ones and then
decoded back into human language—processed from the analogue to
the digital and back again. The zeros and ones are read by two persons
alternately, interpreted by a third representing a CPU (Central Processing
Unit) and stuck onto the wall panel by a fourth as Display. The performers
play computer with the ASCII-version of this originally literary text.
At the gallery, additionally to a video documentation, a copylefted manual
of instructions for this performance invites the visitor to continue the
procedure at home. |
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| Apartment Martin Wattenberg Computer scientist, New Media artist, and founding manager of IBM’s Visual Communication Lab. http://bewitched.com Marek Walczak Artist and architect engaged in how people can participate in physical and virtual spaces. http://mw2mw.com With additional programming by Jonathan Feinberg. |
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Inspired
by Cicero's mnemonic technique of a memory palace the user of Apartment
(2001) establishes equivalence between language and space by typing words
and phrases. After being processed automatically language takes shape
in form of a two-dimensional blue print projected onto the floor of the
gallery and allows the visitor to walk "through". Semantic relationships
among written words are connected to spatial and contextual configurations
as well as they cause their architectural re-organisation. |
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HTML-Malevich HTML-CSS-Malevich Codemanipulator® *1971, lives and works in 0100101101110010011000010110101 11111001101110111 also referred to as 4b 72 61 6b f3 77and in 010000100 110010101110010011011000110100101101110 also referred to as 42 65 72 6c 69 6e http://codemanipulator.com |
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Kazimir
Malevich's The Black Square indicates a turn in
art history being a synonym for the possibilities of reduction
of an artwork. So intends HTML-Malevich (1996)
by reducing the black square even of its "materiality".
Additionally the spectator gets confronted with the historical dimension
of using text-code as painting: in a later re-interpretation of the artwork,
HMTL-CSS-Malevich (2001), the size of the code is reduced again
to a few lines by coding in newer standards. Additionally, depending on
the browser (the interpreter), the rendered results are either Malevich's
square or circle. |
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originally Internet-based website-processor nam shub web (2005-2008)
allows the user to implement his/her individual rules to the textual content
of external websites to generate Visual Poetry. Adapted to the gallery,
a printer is installed, which endlessly reproduces the content of dynamical
websites as hardcopies. With the time passing by the floor of the gallery
is covered with single sheets of paper contradicting the standardisation
of human life as well as the unification of culture by means of linguistic
manipulation. |
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objects
of desire carlos katastrofsky *1975, lives and works in Vienna/Austria http://katastrofsky.cont3xt.net |
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In objects
of desire (2005-2008) a numbered, but unsigned set of sentences which
disappears from the screen as soon as the next set is automatically displayed
allows the visitor to be the owner of a unique work of art, but only as
long as he/she keeps it in mind. This adaption of a previously Internet-based
artwork called the
original questions ironically unicity, ownership and the object-like
nature of a digital artwork. |
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| _s[p]erver[se]_:
404 poetry_ Mary-Anne Breeze (mez) Lives and works under copper-coated morning skys in various synthetic platforms www.hotkey.net.au/~netwurker |
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In _s[p]erver[se]_:
404 poetry_ (2007) the reader is confronted with signs, numbers,
symbols and snippets of programming code, all of them integrated into
the system of our natural language by means of associative techniques.
Originating from the micro-blogging system of Twitter this piece of poetic
writing blurs the boundaries between the "lisible" and "scriptible
text" (Roland Barthes). It does so by replacing the aesthetics of
stylistic devices within a wide range of open semantic systems. |
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| viva la vulva recoded Christina Goestl *1960, lives and works in Vienna/Austria http://www.clitoressa.net Sound by Boris Kopeinig. With many thanks to Betty Dodson. |
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The
work series viva la vulva recoded (2008) brings up gender-issues
by animating special characters in form of vibrant female genitals. But
moreover, this virtual reference to a pink sticker first spotted in the
1970ies in San Francisco alters the formal expression of typography by
its re-interpretation as moving images and sound and therefore creates
an endless process of delimination and conjunction between language and
its visual expressiveness. |
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