Monday 21st Marchpm LB edit
Enghien-les-Bains
3- Documentation (digital files to send by email):
For documentation please go to: http://xname.cc/elk and start with README file with description of all material.
6- How the work addresses and raises awareness of questions about artist mobility, distribution and intercultural exchanges in Europe?
The method of audience engagement and data gathering described in question 4, shows how the very making and performance of Triadic Oculus will engage the artists as mobile interactive nodes of knowledge and ideas. Collectively devising the oracular questions in Istanbul, bringing and asking them in London, presenting and opening and rehearsing the system in Belgium, and presenting it in Paris. This work is a mobile instrument, able to mediate the hopes and fears of people across Europe, giving the answers to their questions, and creating an astonishing art work the same time.
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.
Additionally, the audio database will be processed by a Pure Data (Open Source software) patch and custom software plus CMOS micro logic boards; an algorithmic 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
As mentioned before video will be collected via interkomm software (Open Source online video repository developed by Larisa Blazic) and projected using VPT 5.1 (Video projection Tool) using Pure Data feed.
