NOWHERE

NOWHERE is a landscape in the condition of development. the users of the german search-engine METAGER erode rivers, canyons and valleys by their search-movements. search-requests, existing only for a fraction of a second on the internet, get inscribed in a block of pu-foarm (75cm x 75cm x 10cm) by a 3d milling-machine. the continuous stream of queries defines the rhythm of the machine.

NOWHERE works like a photo-optical long-time exposition. the shutter opens for a period of up to three weeks and updates the developing relief constantly. search-requests get interpreted as eroding forces on the surface of the landscape. simultaneously every entered search request is used as an energy impulse to move the milling-head on step forward. activity removes material, inactivity keeps it. in times with less activity (e.g. in the night hours) the machine works slow and at peak times (e.g. midday) the machine works very fast and hectically. the developing space/time sculpture embodies an not existing place, which is made visible by the users of the search-engine.

NOWHERE #1 the first developed landscape was produced during 29.12.05 and 18.01.06 (with over 1million search requests).

Wearable Instruments

Wearable Instruments, by Marisa Jahn & Steve Shada, is a series out wearable musical instruments that allegorize human relationships. This is a direction I'd like to investigate in my own work, it gives definitely other opportunities for people to create contact and explore other ways off communicating.

Exhausted: Two vests sewn with an accordion-like instrument between; individuals wear them facing each other; as the two participants embrace and pull away their movements generate sound. The bellows of the 'accordion', when extended to their maximal capacity, reveal the word 'exhaust.' In other words, the air fills the bellows when the individuals, frustrated ('exhausted') by each other, pull apart. This air is expelled/exhausted as the individuals embrace, paradoxically suggesting that through embrasure the frustration is dispelled or exhausted.

Hug n' Harp : A set of vests equipped with a stringed instrument component located on each vest's backside. The instruments are played when the participants embrace; the participants can only play their partner's instruments, not their own. Additionally, with the instrument's orifice positioned in a location accessible to others, the individual wearing the vest finds him/herself in a vulnerable position wherein anyone can access the vest and play his or her strings...