This project finds a structure for groupexhibitions with a substantiation on the absence/or presence of Artworks and artists.
The Net creates a new feeling of presence. Once your Skype tells you that somebody else is working on the computer, one is not sitting there alone. The definition of Absence dissolves into a virtual presence. How can this be useful for group exhibition?
Through Server Technology and Net Data exchange artpieces can be projected into real spaces and vice versa. Like this it is possible to arrange one exhibiition in two Spaces and cities.
however we start off with a collaborative Project between Spain and Germany, to find a possibe structure for these exhibitions.
Ariadna Spain: When receiving an email or during an instant conversation in msn or skype, we sometimes feel the physical presence of someone standing in front of the computer, it can be hundreds of kilometers far. Other times, the lack of physical presence makes impossible to get a comunication. I imagine an installation that resumes those feelings and implicates the visitors to a contradiction between virtual and not virtual space; physical absence but with sensitive instuition of it. So, I imagine two cabins made by a plastic translucid material, placed in different spaces. When someone gets inside, his breathing, heart beats, steps, sounds from his movements are captured and send to the other cabin. Also a webcam is capturing the image of them, and outputs a mix of both boxies placed in a virtual space; that means in the outside of the cabins, a projection will show the two bodies with a new background.
Therese Germany: When we all met in Skype, didn´t we all have coffee at one point? This reminds me of an old artist tradition to meet in coffee places to talk about art. I would like to build a cup of coffee, with a spoon inside. The spoon is connected to a rotating motor that is triggered and connected to our emailserver. Meaning once an email arrives, the spoon swirrls the coffee.
Further developemnt would be o analyse the numbers of words or letters and to translate it into the movement of the spoon.
A webcam can send a live picture to our webpage. And the idea can be broadened into a whole coffee table. Does somebody want to be the sugar?
Materials: coffee, motor, PD (or MAX MSP) data transfer, Table, webcam
