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 | Franz John (DE)
- Turing Tables: An Untitled Composition for Tectonic Spaces In this work, based on the machine-theory of the mathematician Alan Turing, Franz John takes live seismological data and turns it into pictures, sound and movement. The project is not about the catastrophes that cause these movements in inhabited areas, but about the archaic feeling and consciousness that the earth is an organism, that it moves and that it can be understood as an organism in constant flux. Several million earthquakes of different intensities occur each year. Seismological institutes throughout the world measure these vibrations and exchange and communicate this collected data among themselves via automated internet-transfers. It is this meta-perception that Franz John makes visible, siphoning this human-machine-communication data stream directly from internet servers of seismographic institutes and bringing it into his online installation. In a matter of seconds, this installation converts these measurements from the seismological stations into sound and image. From the perspective of a "global eye" the internet directly connects the observer with the pulsating core of the earth. Franz John (born in 1960 in Marktleugast, Germany) is a multimedia artist, lives and works in Berlin. In collaboration with Sascha Brossmann (programming) and Ed Osborn (sound). http://www.rockenroll.org/tt/
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