installation
_24!
   
by: Lotte Schreiber,
Norbert Pfaffenbichler,
Michael Aschauer
programming: M. Aschauer
year of production: 2003
sound: Michael Aschauer
links: www.m.ash.to/24
 
 
 

The installation is comprised of 24 pedestals with a quadratic basis (50 x 50 x 75 cm), which are placed in regular intervals in the room. An animated pixel can be seen on the top side of each pedestal, which horizontally, vertically and diagonally scans the axes of the quadratic surface of the pedestal. The visitor can freely move about the pedestals. The audio composition follows the same system as the animation.
24 speakers which play a finite number of non-repeating combinations are placed in the 24 pedestals. The wave forms (sine, saw tooth, noise) serve as acoustic raw material along with a direct interpretation of image movements in sound movements into the smallest digital-acoustic unit of a sample-value. One and the same simple mathematic structure is used to link the systems of sound, image and space.
It would take about 2 times 10 to the 16 th years or about 20 trillion years in order to play out all of the possible combinations of this finite audio-visual composition. 24! is an aggregate composition (spatial-acoustic-visual). The installation is understood as 'minimal media art'. The pedestal serves as a citation from the classical presentation form in an art context and is spatially isolated and serially aligned. One projection hits each of the 24 pedestals respectively. Projected images take the place usually reserved for small sculptures or like things. Immateriality supercedes materiality. Further, the traditional presentation form is broken through the tilting of the image plain to the horizontal. Each animation is self-contained. The black square on a white background scans the surface axes of the pedestal basis and with this describes the surface.
There is a loudspeaker box in each pedestal. The sound dimension is an exact translation of the spatial dimension.

  Together, animation and sound produce a strict combinatory composition. The vocabulary of classical art presentation is cited and combined with numerous digital technologies. 24! further represents an attempt to link the elements space, image and tone together and with this to find the smallest common denominator. The installation stands by itself as a work or composition and does not represent anything more or less than the conditions of its own existence.



 
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