Project +49 157 362 961 96
Quoi:
Work
Quand:
6:00 PM, lundi 13 août 2018
(3 jours 20 heures)
Où:
Centre de Design (DE) UQAM -
Galerie du Centre de Design
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The Project +49 157 362 961 96 (2017)created by Marcelina Wellmer is an
interactive installation operating within the complex environment of
telematic and mobile communication, on the verge of generative art and
e-literature, with some features of a kinetic sound-sculpture. Sending a
text message to the provided phone number initiates data processing,
while the customised software and plotter hardware turn each SMS into a
line of a manuscript. The outcome of the plotter’s movement imitates a
human handwriting, although the written contents is neither imitated,
nor artificial. It is an upshot of participants’ voluntary contribution.
While the collaboratively created text as a whole, is an outcome of a
random flow of messages, the process reveals the hidden curriculum of
turning a raw thought into a coherent verbal statement. During the
writing process, the plotter emits sound, reminding of the
computer-mediated communication (CMC) taking place. Operating within the
given affordances, it evokes not an artificial, but rather a collective
intelligence contributed by both human and software-based actants.
Although the idea may seem to reach back to the pioneering experiments
in cyberarts, there is a contemporary approach of critical engineering
and analysis of a creative process. While it examines the human-computer
interactivity (HCI) paradigm, the project is focused on re-inventing
rudiments of communication process through reinterpreting technology by
questioning its primary characteristics.