Syndicate: ParaSounds2 - Wiretap 4.04

[Andreas Broeckmann <abroeck@v2.nl>]

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..................... 'Sounds of Silence' .....................
......................... Wiretap 4.04 ........................
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An exhibition and performance program on sound art, antennas
and listening to silence.
We experience silence when our ears don't hear anything. But
there is no reason to believe that there are no sounds in
silence - just as our eyes can only perceive a limited spectrum
of waves as optical information, our ears are only sensitive to
a small part of what there is to hear.
Machines are less limited in this. They can be pitched to pick
up all sorts of waves and sounds and to transform them and make
them audible for the human ear. Artists and scientists use all
sorts of apparatuses in order to research the aesthetical and
the physical dimensions of the so called 'silence' and 'white
noise' and to make them perceivable to the human senses.
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...................... dates and program ......................
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Friday April 17 1998
18.00 hrs: opening exhibition.

Saturday April 18 untill May 2
daily from 13.00 hrs untill 18.00 hrs (Monday closed):
Installation: 'Aeriology' by Joyce Hinterding.

Sunday April 19
from 14.00 hrs untill 17.00 hrs:
Wiretap 4.04: 'The Wardenclyffe Project': performance by
Projekt Atol/Rastermusic and a presentation by Marko Peljhan
on the project Makrolab previously presented at the documenta
X in Kassel.

Location:
V2_Building - Eendrachtsstraat 10 - 3012 XL - Rotterdam
Entrance exhibition: fl 2,50
Entrance Wiretap 4.04: fl 7,50
Info: 31.10.404.6427 - v2@v2.nl

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....................... Exhibition .......................
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Joyce Hinterding 'Aeriology'

Aeriology is an aerial, several kilometres in length, an energy
gatherer, a reconfigurer of subtle fields. Aeriology is a
project for an unfolding of the ethereal. A machine for the
techne of the imperceptible. Form in the nature of a coil
expands the possibilities for an art concerned with lines,
flows and folds. These harmonising coils reveal through
sympathetic amplification activity of the unseen.

Over 34 kilometres of wire wrap around the steel columns in the
V2_ space to form an energy gatherer. A huge, semi-transparent
wall of copper that is stimulated by imperceptible activities
of the environment. The signals and waves that the installation
picks up are fed into an audio system and are thus made audible
for the human ear. An oscilloscope (with a video/data out)
monitors the output of the antenna, while a surveillance camera
tracks the movement and human interference in the
electromagnetic environment.
Images from both the oscilloscope and from the camera are
projected onto the walls of the exhibition space.

Based in Sydney Australia Joyce Hinterding is a cross media
artist producing and exhibiting works that explore dynamics.
Her work develops and makes strange with natural phenomena as a
means of examining some of the states that exist between things.
Through explorations with acoustic and electrical phenomena she
has been developing a delirious technology, one that gives a
voice to the unquantifiable nature of the everyday world.

http://www.imago.com.au/luminoska
http://no.va.com.au/

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Projekt Atol / Rastermusic/Noton 'The Wardenclyffe Project'

Projekt Atol (Marko Peljhan and Aljosha Abrahamsberg (Slo)) and
Rastermusic/Noton (Carsten Nicolai, Frank Bretschneider, Olaf Bender
(D)) research possibilities to scan and braodcast information
and signals within large communication systems.

Marko Peljhan - http://makrolab.ljudmila.org/
Rastermusic/Noton - http://www.rastermusic.com/

Wardenclyffe is a town on Long Island in upstate New York
where researcher and inventor Nikola Tesla etsablished an
experimental station for a so-called 'world system' in 1900.
This 'world system' not only was supposed to create the
possibility of wireless transmission of energy to any place
in this world, but also to work as a worldwide communication
and information system accessible for everybody. The
experimental station was never fully finished and was given
up on and torn down for lack of money after six years.

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The Parasounds series

'Parasounds' is a series of programmes organised by
V2_Organisation Rotterdam which explore the subliminal
soundscape. 'Parasounds' presents sonic phenomena of the
contemporary environment which lie, in one way or the other,
'beyond' what we usually hear and perceive. The programmes look
at various aspects of the relations between the natural and
technological environment, science, society and the way in
which artists are working with such phenomena. 'Parasounds'
traces a continuing tendency by artists to move away from the
creation of images towards an experience of the world through
sound events. The first installment of 'Parasounds' was
presented in November 1997 under the title 'Roots and Wires:
Polyrhythmic Cyberspace and the Black Electronic'. Other parts
of the series - 'Sounds from the Outside', 'Sounds from the
Inside' - are due to follow later in 1998.

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Parasounds: Sounds of Silence is supported by the Goethe Institut Rotterdam
and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia. The Wiretap series
is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Netherlands and by the City
of Rotterdam.