In the media-jungle of the 21st century the cultural identity of people is defined by television, radio and internet.
ID is a simultaneous broadcast of television and radio signals from all over the world into Vienna’s public space. This collection and compression of media messages confront visitors with the synchronicity of heterogeneous world affairs and the continuous stream of identities created by world cultures.
The first project of its kind, ID calls for a re-orientation of the self in
the midst of an auto generic whirlpool of information –
a manifestation of openness, embracing tolerance towards the unknown, encouraging
an exploration of the unexplored.
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ID - Essential Information
Intercultural SoundSpaceGenerator
EU arts project, commissioned by the City Council of Vienna
Vienna, November 2001:
one of the most notable intercultural experiments in Europe is about to commence.
ID gives a forward-thinking, radical aesthetic impulse to an urban problem area.
Real space and media-space are merged to create a new kind of Gesamtkunstwerk:
Radio- and TV-broadcasts from all over the world are collected and transformed on location. A sound-space, developing over years as a digital organism. A walk-in space, continuously folding and unfolding. Visitors move through a kaleidoscope of sound, composing their own personal cosmos.
ID - CONTEXT
Art in Public Space | Playground for Ethnia
The Dornerplatz in the 17th district of Vienna was long denied to function as a public, social and cultural centre, but was used as an urban 'storage space' instead. As part of a major re-development project, an artwork has been integrated in the square, taking as its theme the unique constellation of the area’s social structure: more than 50 % of all residents in this area are of foreign descent. This multicultural atmosphere, which is extraordinary by Viennese standards, is reflected on by the project ID and channelled into an artistic experience for residents, passers-by and interested visitors.
ID - PROJECT
Intercultural Hearing Aid
IDentities are collected in the shape of radio and TV programmes from all around the globe. 14 such broadcasts are bundled in the Dornerplatz in Vienna and can be experienced simultaneously in the specifically built walk-in Intercultural Hearing Aid: 14 huge monoliths allow visitors to listen to those original signals, as well as the digital abstractions produced by the sound artists sha. & GTT, who process the original signals to generate a new sensual sphere of sound, interacting with every single visitor. The fascinating visual structure of the space, designed by the space artist burkhardt, provokes the visitor to move through the elliptic space mapped out by the monoliths.
Thus, oscillating through this kaleidoscope of sound, the visitors 'compose' their own, personal musical aggregate states: approaching a single monolith they will listen into the world; moving between the monoliths a strange world of sounds will touch them. The results from the live-processing of sounds are fed back into the public media space via IDradio, which can be tuned into all over the world.
ID - ARTISTS
sha. & GTT, burkhardt
Intersecting sound and space
The Viennese sound artists sha. & GTT work together with the space artist burkhardt on the development of a new aesthetic of radical sensuality. Following their latest collaborative project – the interactive sound exhibition SONOSPHERE in the HOUSE OF MUSIC, Vienna – they are now working on the realisation of ID.
CONTACT
Atelier sha. & GTT
1010 vienna – austria
+43–1–53298111 (tel)
+43–1–53298110 (fax)
www.shaGTT.com
sha.GTT@chello.at
ID-CONCEPT
Sound – texture of the world
Our media-dominated world is a wonderful - if sometimes confusing – collective,
a mix of
hybrid cultural modules. In the project ID, we are sending information from
the media jungle into overdrive. Our aim is not to gain a different interpretation
of the world, but to create an 'ARTmosphere', which offers people a break from
their everyday routines and provides fresh aesthetic experience for a particular
state of 'looseness' of information. We invest everything to gain nothing, non-symbolism,
imaginative void: to be all ears only.
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ID - FACTFILE
A WALK–IN ARTWORK
as a permanent installation in public space
LOCATION
Dornerplatz, 1170 Vienna
OPENING HOURS
24/7, free entrance!
INVESTMENT
6.000.000.- ATS / 440.000 EURO
TECHNOLOGIES
Collection of media signals via digital satellite systems
Development of dedicated Linux-software for sound processing
New development of NXT-flat loudspeaker (prototypes)
PRESS PREVIEW
29. november 2001, 10.00 h
OPENING CEREMONY
29. november 2001, 11.00 h
OPENING PARTY
29. november 2001, 19.00 h
ID - MEDIA PARTNERS
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