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For my resideny at Overtoon, I propose a site specific installation, xXx( workingtitle), which deals with time and perception of time.
What follows are a few things which inspire me. A few ideas about the relation between technology, art, time, sound,... which I think are interesting to explore during my residency at Overtoon.
- Douglas Rushkoff's 2012 Book, Present Shock,
- The Art of noises, by Luigi Russolo,
- A Speaking Machine by 18th century inventor Wolfgang Von Kempelen
- A quote by Baudrillard
- Untilled, Pierre Huyghe's contribution to Documenta Kassel
Contents
From the book : Present Shock by Douglas Rushkoff
"People have spent a great part of the 20th century obsessed with the future. We were looking forward. The rise of the digital age held the promise that the future would bring change of unprecedent magnitude, invigorated by new technologies. Computer speeds would double each year, and along with that, it seemed, anything would follow.
The future has arrived. The future is now. Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. We are no longer leaning forwards towards the future but living in an eternal present, where everything is always on and happening in real time.
It's not a mere speeding up, however much our lifestyles and technologies have accelerate the rate at which we attempt to do things. It's more of a diminishment of anything that isn't happening right now - and the onslaught of everything that supposedly is.
Yet this now is an elusive goal that we can never quite search. And the dissonance between our digital selves and our analog bodies has thrown us into a new state of anxiety: present shock.
As a result , our culture becomes an entropic, static hum of everybody trying to capture the slipping moment.
Luigi Russolo, The art of noises
Rushkoff is referring to the 2 decennia before the change of the century. The rise of the digital era. But this same view of a future, energized by new technologies, is what drove the futurist at the end of the industrial revolution.
| roars claps noises of falling water driving noises bellows |
whistles snores snorts |
whispers mutterings rustlings grumbles grunts gurgles |
shrill sounds cracks buzzings jingles shuffles |
percussive noises using: metal wood skin stone baked earth ... |
animal and human voices: shouts moans screams laughter rattling sobs |
Russola's intonarumori which hold energy potential power promise <---> view of rushkoff about influence of technology on modern day society.
However machine oriented Russolo was in his categories of noises contains human like sounds, which can be mechanically reproduced --> Von kempelen.
Speaking machine by Von Kempelen
This 18th century's Austrian inventor Wolfgang Von Kempelen is probably most famous for his invention of the mechanical Turk, a chess playing automaton, a far reaching and elaborate hoax. The story goes that he invented the mechanical turk to impress Maria Theresia, Empress of Austria, to give him the money to work on a manual operated speech synthesizer. While it took him 6 months to finish the mechanical Turk, he spent almost 20 years to develop a functional model which he considered a representational model of the human vocal tract.
However primitive this might have been --> model can only reproduce a few words --> right approach in building a resonator copying the shape of mouth and nose --> not the larynx which produces different sounds.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Kempelen_Speakingmachine.JPG
Site specific setup
For my overtoon residency I propose a site specific installation, to be installed on the 11th floor of the high rise of which overtoon occupies the 9th floor. The main element I would like to use. is buildings stands out in the Brussels skyline. Wind has free.
what the effects are of of this energy and force can be used.
Winds hitting the building and will cause pressure on one side and suction or a vacuum on the other. Depending on the direction of the wind. I would like to use this energy and forces of the winds which will have it's effects on the interior...
Jean Baudrillard, America
"There can be no silence up in the mountains, since their very contours roar. And for there to be silence, time itself has to attain a sort of horizontality; there has to be no echo of time in the future, but simply a sliding of geological strata one upon the other giving out nothing more than a fossil murmur” [America, Jean Baudrillard]
Pierre Huyghe
The individual's ability to get a handle on the present - to experience duration, to resist the condition of time as product, ...
A time negotiated in keeping with external constraints. A fiction extended into reality. An alternate coding of temporal practice. ....
Mechanisms for reclaiming time, as it is live for the individual
The agency of the individual by working through the infinite interpretations and folds of reality that are possible at every moment, p 2 - A fiction extended into reality. p1
This is the new now. Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. Everything is live, real time and always on. It's not a mere speeding up, however much our lifestyles and technologies have accelerate the rate at which we attempt to do things. It's more of a diminishment of anything that isn't happening right now - and the onslaught of everything that supposedly is.
People spent the twentieth century obsessed with the future. We created technologies that would help connect us faster, gather news, map the planet, compile knowledge, and connect with anyone, at anytime. We strove for an instaneaous network where time and space could be compressed. Well, the future's arrived. We live in a continuous now enabled by twitter, email and the so-called realtime technological shift, Yet this now is an elusive goal that we can never quite search. And the dissonance between our digital selves and our analog bodies has thrown us into a new state of anxiety: present shock.
As a result , our culture becomes an entropic, static hum of everybody trying to capture the slipping moment.
when things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. press pause..
instead of cultural comparison the dessert offered an absolute renunciation or sweeping away of culture
People spent the twentieth century obsessed with the future.
time perception of time,
"The future is now rights. We have spent the end of the 20th century being obsessed with the future. Looking forward. But now this has arrived. That is in short the gist of David Rushkoff's 2012 book : "Present Shock"
The individual's ability to get a handle on the present - to experience duration, to resist the condition of time as product, ...
A time negotiated in keeping with external constraints. A fiction extended into reality. An alternate coding of temporal practice. ....
Mechanisms for reclaiming time, as it is live for the individual
The agency of the individual by working through the infinite interpretations and folds of reality that are possible at every moment, p 2 - A fiction extended into reality. p1
