A performance by Karl Heinz Jeron and Valie Djordjevic
Taking the code literally.
The performers are reading the machine-code version of Marcel Proust’s novel. During the eight hours of a working day the humans are playing computer. For these purposes the text is first deconstructed into its individual parts - the letter and characters - which in turn are decoded into the Ascii-code - a code underlying digital text processing. Each letter is represented by an individual sequence of signs, consisting of zeros and ones. The performance is situated in an ironic lab situation and attempts to find beauty inside of the microstructures of the digital. During the act of reading, interpreting and presenting the work of art emerges, posing questions about the nature of the digital and the analogue, of work and art, time and beauty.
Full Description
A performance by Karl Heinz Jeron and Valie Djordjevic
Taking the code literally.
The performers are reading the machine-code version of Marcel Proust’s novel. During the eight hours of a working day the humans are playing computer. For these purposes the text is first deconstructed into its individual parts - the letter and characters - which in turn are decoded into the Ascii-code - a code underlying digital text processing. Each letter is represented by an individual sequence of signs, consisting of zeros and ones. The performance is situated in an ironic lab situation and attempts to find beauty inside of the microstructures of the digital. During the act of reading, interpreting and presenting the work of art emerges, posing questions about the nature of the digital and the analogue, of work and art, time and beauty.
Work metadata
- Year Created: 2005
- Submitted to ArtBase: Saturday Nov 11th, 2006
- Original Url: http://khjeron.de/a_la_rechreche
- Permalink: http://khjeron.de/a_la_rechreche
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Work Credits:
- Karl Heinz Jeron, creator
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