PROJECTS

installation | videos | computer graphics | web design | graphic design

database

database is an electronic reading device that deals with the inversed functionality of three technologies: a printer, a video camera and a database. As such, it raises issues about the erasure of text, the act of reading in real time (i.e., listening to a printed text), and physical databases. We challenge the idea of the database as a non-linear and digital structure, and the printer as an output device as well as an information recorder. Our aim is to question the traditional meaning of computer interfaces. We achieve this by inverting their basic functionality. The installation deals with the opposition between presence and absence, recording and erasing, memory and forgetfulness, present and continuous time, reading and listening. These concepts are connected with the idea of present time as a time that is always passing by.

In collaboration with: Fabian Winkler

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Nominated Works in the Media Arts Festival (Japan) - March 2003.

Award winning piece in the ACADIA 2002 Digital Design Exhibition (Pomona, CA - Oct. 26th).

Paper published in SiGRaDI 2002 (6th Ibero-American Congress of Digital Graphics). Caracas - Venezuela - Nov. 2002

Presented in File Symposium 2002 (Festival Internacional de Liguagem Eletronica). Sao Paulo - Brasil / August, 2002.

Exhibited at the Electronic Literature Symposium STATE OF THE ARTS. UCLA - April 4th-6th.

Eletronic Literature Symposium (Prof. N.Katherine Hayles keynote speech). AUDIO | TEXT

LA TIMES. "Opening the Book on Literature's Future". April, 14th, 2002.