EMPATHY @ After The Shot

"After The Shot" 25.06.11

Kunst in Späti International

Weserstraße 190

Presented by Sonja Arz and Karin Lustenberger

glove sensor instruments performance v2

the landscope according to fdscheff
[ photo | collage | video | sound | performance ]

iGeL seumestrasse 24 berlin friedrichshain

finissage 28.5. / 18h annie goh & mari matsutoya - sensor instruments & laptops









Photos by Mari Inoue
Video & audio documentation disappeared

Jeff Carter - The Common Citizenship of Forms

Jeff Carter - The Common Citizenship of Forms

"The Common Citizenship of Forms"

Jeff Carter

DePaul Humanities Center Faculty Fellow

Associate Professor of Art, Media and Design

02.06.11-31.07.11

Crown Hall, Chicago

Carter's exhibition presents a series of large-scale architectural models using altered IKEA products such as tables, desks, shelves and flooring. The models and their arrangement are based on the eight buildings at the Michael Reese Hospital campus designed between 1947 and 1959 by Walter Gropius, founder of the Bauhaus. In the past year, these buildings have been destroyed by the City of Chicago (under the false pretenses of preparing for the 2016 Olympic Games), drawing worldwide outrage.



The Common Citizenship of Forms
(Convalescent Home) 2010
Modified IKEA products (Laminated MDF, paper,
bamboo, steel, hardware), 5-channel sound system,
sound compositions by Annie Goh
22” x 32” x 60”




Link and audio extract: http://www.jeff-carter.net/html/workpages/MRH_3.html

sensor instruments - glove box v1

Jan 2011

Performance
An audio-visual rendezvous: Ida Nowhere meets the Generative Art Class and Friends
28 – 30 January 2011

First performance with sensor/glove-based interfaces in collaboration with Mari Matsutoya, based on workshop with Hannes Holzl

Wobble Squid (auralia oscillia)

Auralia Oscillia

The Wobbling Moon Jellyfish, commonly known as the 'Wobble Squid' is a sea jelly that resembles a floating mushroom, closely related to the Aurelia Aurita or common Moon Jellyfish (dt. Ohrenqualle). Four horseshoe shaped gonads situated at the bottom of the stomach are a distinctive feature of the Moon Jellyfish.

In Eastern mythology, the jellyfish tried to deceive the dragon king Rinjin, who then beat him and pulled out all the bones of his body. Indeed, Moon Jellyfish possess neither bones nor brain, heart, blood, head, eyes or ears and consist basically of a floating mouth/anus and digestive system. Thus, the Moon Jellyfish can be appreciated for its simplistic anatomy and vengeful and poisonous nature.

In contrast to the common Moon Jellyfish, the Auralia Oscillia emits a low frequency oscillation perceived as a low wobbling sound as their sting cells or nematocysts prepare to emit poison in order to capture prey. This mutation is currently understood to function in the deep sea by stunning prey before stinging as an extra mode of attack.

Part of

Varia zoosystematica profundorum

Experimental studies in deep sea communication

Generative Art/Computational Art Class (Alberto de Campo), UdK Berlin

http://entropie.digital.udk-berlin.de/wiki/DeepSea
http://variazoosystematicaprofundorum.blogspot.com/

EMPATHY -

EMPATHY - an interactive sculpture about otoacoustic emissions

Otoacoustic emissions are sounds generated within the inner ear. They are considered to be related to the amplification function of the cochlea and are used clinically to measure the health of the inner ear. After being predicted thirty years previously, the existence of otoacoustic emissions was first demonstrated with the advent of suitably sensitive microphones by David Kemp in 1978.

The composer Maryanne Amacher (1938-2009) used otoacoustic emissions in her compositions, most notably in the album 'Sound Characters (Making the Third Ear)' in which she speaks of releasing the music produced by the listener as the sounds given stimulate new tones in the listener's ears.

The sculpture EMPATHY aims to simulate and exaggerate this physiological phenomena in an external, speculative way - a bodily organ becomes a specimen for examination, rather like the preserved organs in the medical history museum of the Charité nearby. A live sound feed, sensitive to the sounds around it, causes a reflexive movement in the cochlea and Organ of Corti of the enlarged ear model. This banal sound emitted by the sculpture is perceived as an involuntary echo of our ear mechanisms, reminding us of the constant empathetic relationship between our bodies and our surroundings.

Exhibited at:


PHONAUTOPSY
Klang Körper Konservierung
Ausstellung im ehemaligen Leichenschauhaus der Charité Berlin
Institut für Rechtsmedizin der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Hannoversche Str. 6, 10115 Berlin
07.10.10-31.10.10

The SF (science fiction) KAPITAL of Karl-Marx Allee

"SF capital is the synergy, the positive feedback between future-oriented media and capital. The alliance between cybernetic futurism and “New Economy” theories argues that information is a direct generator of economic value. Information about the future therefore circulates as an increasingly important commodity."
Kodwo Eshun paraphrasing Mark Fischer (Further Considerations on Afrofuturism)

The architecture of the Karl-Marx Allee (former Stalinallee) and Strausberger Platz embody the ideologies of the East German state in a strong and individual way, demonstrated particularly through its exemplary "Socialist-Realist" architecture and the historical city planning initiatives post-WWII. The American architect Philip Johnson called the Karl-Marx Allee "true city planning on the grand scale".

The work "The Science Fiction KAPITAL of Karl-Marx Allee" aims to capture and reflect upon the notion of "science fiction capital" as it would have been during the planning and building of the Karl-Marx Allee after WWII, where this vision of the socialist future was physically taking shape and affecting the minds and mentalities of the citizens of the newly founded GDR.

"Science Fiction" as a concept can be re-read in a "real" sociopolitical context, such as that of William Gibson's statement that science fiction is a means to preprogram the present, or in the words of Kodwo Eshun "engineering feedback between its preferred future and its becoming present". The core premise of science fiction, according to Samuel R. Delany’s statement, as offering “a significant distortion of the present” underlies this conceptual work, a one-day installation on 18th July 2010 (World Listening Day) at Strausberger Platz itself, which will be documented and exhibited afterwards.

The work "The Science Fiction KAPITAL of Karl-Marx Allee" aims to visually and auditively attempt to bring these ideas to Strausberger Platz. Visually, coloured perspex cuboids with tiny architectural figures are placed facing the fountain to exaggerate the feeling of proportion in the architecture and the historical future vision of the city planning of the GDR in the 1950s. Auditively, a black cube structure with emerging pipes of different lengths play a multi-channel composition based on various famous future visions as detailed in classic science fiction novels. One of these pipes simply begins and ends on Strausberger Platz, allowing the listener to hear the real sounds of the area with a uneasy root-tone drone. Through these pipes with varying root tones and the accompanying drone, fragments of these absurd futures emerge, a kind of science fiction story box. These varying notions of futurism, realist (through the architecture) and surrealist (through the story box) are laid side-by-side to make tangible, the political power within these fictional and factual visions of the future.

The story box is made in honour of Delia Derbyshire and her pioneering electronic works.