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TELEJAM 04 / CASTLEOFLIGHT
November 18-24 Arhivs gallery Riga, Latvia
A realtime videoinstalation followed by series of live audiovisual data
exchange performances in search of access to the repository of higher
knowledge.
Video / sound artists and broadcasters (streaming media / icecast) are
invited to salvage the Light from obscurity and participate in search
process by joining tele-jamming sessions during the exhibition.
To partcipiate and find out more, pls contact voldemars@parks.lv
for any questions.
*The installation concept is built around an ancient myth found in Latvian
pagan culture, but its symbolic meaning can be found in many other cultures,
be it the Golden Age, The Lost world, the Garden of Eden in ancient times
and Christian belief or lost tree of knowledge in Eastern Cultures.
In the Latvian mythology there is a widely known story about the Palace
of Light - a repository of higher knowledge and wisdom, freedom and power
of spirit and mind, which was drowned by darkness in depths of the lake
Burtnieki a long time ago.
By transforming the pagan mythology and industrial societies notion
of the Place of Light into the images of information society we arrive
at the symbol which finds similarities with 21 century cultural icons
like cyberspace, hyperspace, unlimited information space; dimension of
thought, idea and information reality.
In the Latvian folklore we can find precise information about the way
the drowned palace can be accessed: its name (or call it password) needs
to be guesed, identified and separated from the rest of the information.
Basically if we don't question the convictions of Hellenistic thinkers
about reality as the imperfect projection of the Idea, where new phenomenon
and conceptions appear only when they are thought of (identified), it
is necessary to find/capture this idea of the Palace of light, which will
serve as a universal key to the gate of the world of idea.
Today the information technologies have developed to such a level that
it should be possible to find the 'word'(access code) of the Palace of
Light. Even more, the search can be conducted in three basic levels of
information: visual, sound and text. In this case the access code search
software will work like information processing virtuoso hackers, finding
the right code from the hundreds of possible combinations. |
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* about Telejam Technically: in the exchange of data the internet and streaming media
software (realmedia, Icecast) are used as well as huge arsenal of digital,
virtual and analogue sound and video signal equipment, video/audio mixers,
effect processors, image processing software, etc.
Format of the situation and its experimental aesthetics allow artists
to use and experiment with the net effects and techniques such as delay,
loop, feedback, lo-res and signal distortion to create reflexive and summarising
audio-visual loop infinities.
links: http://www.ambienttv.net/telejam/ [Nov
2002]
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