| the chrono-files |
| Lothringerhalle 13 / München |
| 07.02.-09.03.2003 |
| curated: Margit Rosen & Christian Schoen |
| sound: echelon |
| intro Lothringerhalle 13 OK_Spektral 2 |
from time based art to database
Digital technologies have changed the conditions of communication, recording and storage of information. Individual and collective memory data constitute a new material culture in which not the aura of the original decides value, but rather its world-wide accessibility. In its duration, this culture is shaped by the fragility of its recording media, its dependence on electricity, on the continual transference of data to new media and on adaptation to current technical standards. The projects which will be presented in the framework of the exhibition 'the chrono-files' in the Lothringerhalle 13, addresses questions of temporality and ephemerality of stored data and its material conditions, especially the potential of a digital archive which comprises all formats: texts, language, images, films, music and use data are to be uniformly stored. While film and video contain chemically or magnetically determined data which can be read through a given process, in the computer based arts, the programs written by the artists decide which images and sounds will come about in real-time from the data. Events of the present, whether local or in the net, influence the form of the artwork as variables of algorithms. In 'IP-III' Annja Krautgasser (A) shows the synaesthetic transformation of internet data into spatial architecture and sound (music: Echelon).
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