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APPLICATION FORM MADE CALL FOR PROJECT
1- Applicant
Name(s) and Surname(s) (s) applicant(s):
Company, corporation, university: ELK
Country: UK
Website:
2 - Project title:
Triadic Oculus
3- Documentation (digital files to send by email):
4- How does the work address the relationship between the artist (s) and the audience? Please add in any additional comments you have not already provided in your previous application.
- two types of questions: questions to people and questions to oracle
- we want to collect peoples fear and dreams, the way we do it is asking them questions and recording them so to build a database of thoughts, sounds and videos.
We are inspired by scientist Otto Roesler work. In particular, during a conversation/interview with Eleonora Oreggia in 2008 he affirmed humans are confronted with very crucial questions only 3 times in their life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_R%C3%B6ssler
We will try to comment on that on different level with the people will encounter, and we will be open to listen to powerful, secret and personal experience, whereas people will manifest to us their desire to express themselves to us.
The questions to the oracle will look into the future but the questions to people will look at their powerful personal experience.
We will use a system of fragmentation and recomposition of these voices and visuals we will collect as a database of information which will generate the answers.
The database will be processed by a Pure Data patch and custom software plus CMOS micro logic boards; an algorythmic process whose rules will be influenced by geological, astronomical and other local data (humidity, temperature, etc) will reconstruct a new oracular speech out of the database of european voices we collect during the research period and the trip.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMOS
In each location we will look at local oracles between antiquity and contemporary mithology
The different phases of the work will be structured as follows:
- Istambul: conceptual development, car trip to cross europe
SEPT 2011
work with people
relation between european and asian culture and their implementation of magic practices
we are facilitators of a dialogue
We hald a workshop with a selected advisory board to help us structure the conceptual development of the project:
- grop one: experts in metaphisical and ontological matters:
- ascetic Dervish
- astronomer
- geologist
- geophysicist
- alchemist
- group 2: experts in popular culture, politics and temporal religion:
- cristian
- muslim
- urban planner
- practitioner phsycologist
- politician
- women refugee / care
The meeting will be broadcasted into a local radio.
- big visible tangible layout of circuitry 1.7x2 metres oracle machine, played by the artists and triggered by the audience.
- devising questions/material from the audience throughout the residencies
- artists as mediators, facilitators of creative gathering of input - creating a system/instrument through which the
- changed relationship between performing artists and the audience thought participation in production of content
the audience is devising questions
the artist is a researcher and a mediator
constructing an instrument to let the participants experiment
we create a channel system through which these answers are being realised
5- How can your work be made accessible to the widest possible audience in Europe?
- triadic oculus oracle machine is public art
- our journey will make noise: 3 european women crossing _europe_ on a car to reach the south-eastern limit of the country, istambul: collecting people's questions and fears in order to build and interactive machine which can give answers to human's questions and uncertainty
- during the trip meeting with various local authorities, radio, newspaper and tv to communicate the 'mission'
- get in touch with a PR to trigger a mediatic process to communicate the work to a larger audience
- beside blogs, streaming, internet, art publications and magazines, and critical theory, we would like to involve a larger audience which is not normally engaging with new media art and experimental creative technology. our aim is to create an infecting media campain which can reach and communicate our contemporary form of media, this very new instrument we are building, through the use of old media, that is to say, the classic media of the XIX century, or the last millennium. So newspaper, radio and television will be part of our communication strategy.
- chapters of the project on resonance and other radios (example New Jersey) : our experience throught the different places and phases of work will be narrated in chapters for the radio: story telling
- newspapers: we start from local: hackney citizen, guardian, to go to other european languages and countries, and eventually get this very european experience cross the borders of europe to reach and resonate elsewhere in the world
-interaction with local authorities and institutes
6- How the work addresses and raises awareness of questions about artist mobility, distribution and intercultural exchanges in Europe?
- the work in itself addresses that through...
- the trip
- the interconnections between people
- the questions of people circulating all over europe
7- How do you justify your technological choices? Please evaluate these choices in terms of the potential of the technologies you have chosen. To what extent are your technological choices innovative?
We want to build and instrument which recalls a very ancient dream of humanity, that of building a machine able to create though, and to give answers to problems almost unaided (Leibniz in his monograh 'Dissertatio de Arte Combintoria', 1666, described and analysed in detailes his idea of a special alphabet whose elements represented not sounds, but concepts.)
We believe that building our own instrument and learning how to do it is part of the research to build foundations of how the work should function. We also believe that there is a certain power and characteristic that we can impress into the instrument through building it with our hands, both in terms of electronics and software.
Our philosophy is that of Floss, Free Libre and Open Source software and hardware: we want to document the process and the techniques we use, and release our software and hardware open for other people to read, use it, learn from it, manipulate it. This way we propose a collaborative methodology of research and development that does not base its creative mechanisms on competition but builds its foundation on collaborative tools and distributed communities of development.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open_source_software
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_hardware
We propose a DIY (Do It Yourself) approach and we refer to its cultural references
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_it_yourself
This is also important because, if the functioning of our instrument can be compared to a magic event, still its procedures are not hidden or secret but visible and transparent.
We think it is very important from ethical and practical points of view that our oracular software is not patented and that its functioning and the outcomes of our research are brought back into the community.
About the costumes:
We would like 3 dresses different for each of us, here a short plan:
- turkish inspired shapes and fabric (are we sure? the proj should be european...)
- design in London (stylist: Vivienne Westwood, respect!)
- fitted in Belgium
- worn in Paris
8- How does the project approach sustainability and onwards distribution? (it’s adaptability in production and finances)
After the show we go in tour in public squares and retrace our steps and bring the answers back to the places where we collected the questions.
from istambul we may also try to reach out towards asia, reaching eventually china and japan, so to show this european machine all over middle east and asia.
Another options is bringing the oracle to the burning man in USA
- DVD
- software release and hardware DIY (Do It Yorself) instruction manuals
