in cooperation with burgund t brandt
a microphone captures sound which is being transformed live into a drawing printed by a dot matrix printer
Pindrone addresses the issue of constitution and
representation of reality through data. A rather
rudimentary set of questions was asked first: When
and how data are transformed into information. How
significant are structuring and documentation of this
data for the purpose of representation. In this context
data and meta-data are negotiated as the smallest
possible units of information which (supposedly)
underlie the principle of forming knowledge within
our society.
The artistic approach of this installation is
based on illustrating that every individual at any time
produces data which could be meta-data of a Superordinate
system (whose objective is unknown to the
individual) at its moment of generation.
To reconstruct this data, then transform it into
information and thus derive action-oriented intentions
from it that have an impact on our everyday life, is an
idea that is just as abstract as the idea that ordinary
behavior and the pattern of actions of an individual
holistically affect a social system. The installation
thematizes the seemingly depersonalized abstractness
of the individual within the process of producing sets of
data and meta-data and its consequential involvement
in designing a holistic social system in which the
individual is seen as a microscopically small part.
As early as the year 1927 sociologist, journalist and
cultural critic Siegfried Kracauer formulated in his
work The Mass Ornament: "Although the masses
give rise to the ornament, they are not involved in
thinking it through. As linear as it may be, there is no
line that extends from the small sections of the mass
to the entire figure. The ornament resembles aerial
photographs of landscapes and cities in that it does
not emerge out of the interior of the given conditions,
but rather appears above them."
text: amelie neumann
special thanks to steffen klaue and julian jungel for technical support
// pindrone was shown in the group exhibition 'intangible threat' at spektrum berlin, transmediale/CTM vorspiel 2016 festival