So there are these two completely different works. The one is operating with analog material, the other uses digital data as a source. The common thing - they both visualize information, although being constructed so differently, and even refer to eachother's aproaches. So amazing! I felt like dreams coming true - the analogue world refering to the possibilities of the digital vizualization, the digital work trying to materialize data!
The first installation is by Latvian Artist Žilvinas Kempinas, and consist of VHS Tape, light and air. It seems that this artist always uses tape and air. Simply beautiful!
For Transmediale he installed a work called "White Noise". Cant describe the galant movement of the tape and the flattery sound and the feeling when you stand in front of it. You can't believe it's real!
Second flash - Ryoji Ikeda's "Datatron". Amazing data vizualization and sound, projected with several beamers on a huuuge wall. The work is operating with data as a basic material, transforming and organizing it in a graphical way, trying to aproach the aesthetic of a barcode-defined futuristic society.
In both of the rooms I felt like being IN the visual information. As someone being occupied with thoughts about "analog or/vs/with/in digital" every day, seeing these works made me think about the connection of all ways of vizualization nowadays, in order to make things "clear". And proved that besides tape I find codes and data really beautiful.
I met a guy from London while waiting at the queue, who said he was an IT-Consultant and programmer, and that he doesn't actually have an art-point of view or knowledge about art, and that he came to the the exhibition to kill some time. At my question how he liked the tape-installation and the reference to the digital vizualization he said: "Yeah, very interesting, but when I look at things like that I am always like: why?".
* analogue shots from the works coming soon
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