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- | Ships are islands, they offer autonomous structures. That's why we work a lot on ships. We have been working on ways to reflect the Internet for several years. In order to get an observer status on this powerful information network you have to be able to disconnect yourself from the system. We try that with our own autonomous information network. The first experiments started in 2006. [[ns2.kunstlabor.at/ | + | Ships are islands, they offer autonomous structures. That's why we work a lot on ships. We have been working on ways to reflect the Internet for several years. In order to get an observer status on this powerful information network you have to be able to disconnect yourself from the system. We try that with our own autonomous information network. The first experiments started in 2006. [[https://xav.net/ |
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- | ==== Labs and Art ==== | ||
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- | ** A context that influenced the concept of contemporary art in the last two decades of the last century. ** | ||
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- | Art comes from not knowing, explore, try and learn. The same applies to laboratories. Both concepts contain new ideas and utopias. This was the idea of New Media Art. | ||
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- | With this concepts were created in the "New Context" | ||
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- | But already in the early 1980s the Stadtwerkstatt was working on the process-oriented art in which the change, the development of the artwork was part of the concept. | ||
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- | The work-up of this art context in which the laboratory as a process is / was part of the artwork has / was dedicated to our colleague and friend Armin Medosch. The book was published by MIT-PRESS. | ||
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- | === Texte zum InfoLABs=== | ||
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- | ==== Excerpt from our annual program 2016-2018 ==== | ||
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- | In search of new perspectives and current philosophical questions, we are searching for an art context for the "new media" | ||
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- | === Infolab: Excursus Theory === | ||
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- | Several years ago, we founded Infolab to show the problems and solutions of our machine information age. The laboratory sees itself as the logical consequence of the hacking and fablabs who have sweated the art context as creative biotopes in the last 20 years. As with these creative laboratories, | ||
- | In addition to this reflection of the current state, the research that led us to the development of IT should be carried out. This raises the question: what is information - what is it? There is no credible view of science. Can we control the information? | ||
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- | What we know: | ||
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- | The information is an aid to make decisions. As far as we have researched with Dietmar Locher and others, we can get this information about our environment - by informing ourselves about something (eg on the Internet). But we can also make decisions about our feelings. These feelings are partly tied to the preservation of our body. As an example, I would like to quote the feeling of hunger, because making a decision to eat is not difficult. The decision on what to eat can be made dependent on environmental factors or looking up what is politically correct. Any decision is certainly a hybrid of all components. | ||
- | With the development of a global machine information network, decisions become more and more important that can be understood by other people. Everything is always brought into a causal relationship. Here is my problem with IT. There is no room for new things in this one world. We have to justify ourselves if we decide differently than the others. The individual and thus the creativity and the intellect are pushed back. We have developed this global information network from our need for logic and truth ourselves. The creativity of individuals played an essential role in this development. A creativity that is no longer necessary in a causal system. A creative individual defines himself through his free will as an intellectual achievement. We also want to engage in non-causal things in our lab to preserve creativity. To do that, we need to take a closer look at the components of creativity. Creativity includes individuals and their goals. An individual is recognizable by his free will. On the subject of free will you can read in Wikipedia about the necessity of coincidence. For a technician, the question immediately arises: Where does this coincidence come from? Actually, a random generator would have to be built into the individual! Another source of information is feeling and intuition. These consist of the chemical messengers that serve to maintain the body and / or the sum information of the entire evolution, which are stored in our genes. One of the most important factors for creativity is also a spontaneous event that we do not really know when and why it is happening. This spontaneous event is actually the most important factor that enables the engine, the attractor, the interconnections of various sources of information. With luck, the brief moment that we call " | ||
- | Causal system generated, otherwise he is good for nothing. We can also sense the place of chance in the world of emotions when we look into the setting sun and can not put in an infinite number of glittering light reflections on the sea horizon. The glimpse of a fire with the unpredictable flickering flames and sparkling embers. The splashing of a stream. The roar of the sea surf. The light reflections of the wave surface. Clouds and fog. In sum, the overall view of our earth must not be missing. A blue planet presents itself in a fascinating image of chaotic cloud constellations and the infinite glitter of the oceans in the sun. Chaos as a source of beauty works strangely in our logically and profit-driven world. It is usually the fractal transitional structures of the four basic elements that give us this potential of chance and creativity. | ||
- | If we want to maintain creativity, we have to be part of our life before the global one | ||
- | Protect information monsters that knows only a causal relationship and wants to integrate everything into it. Keeping the accident out is not a difficult task, because in a causal system there can be no coincidence. With the remaining components that contribute to creativity it will be more difficult. To do that, we want to define the clearest possible boundaries and create border crossings, which we should protect with firewalls. The logical causal world of the information network is even dependent on the acausal events. | ||
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- | With causal algorithms one can not generate a coincidence. But you need it to create uniqueness in the network through encryption techniques. As one of the first steps to an infolab we should get rid of the concept of art. Instead, we should only use the term acausal information. Acausal information does not work on the internet. The sources of creativity must remain in the reference system and can not be transferred to IT. They have to stay in the hearts of the people, in the dream worlds of individuals to create a reference position and so on | ||
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- | But common values in this acausal area are extremely dangerous and need to be scrutinized. These include religions, esotericism, | ||
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- | By incorporating individual values, it is possible to preserve our creativity. So we created this global information-processing monster machine, which is now cornering us, because it defines the logically comprehensible arguments as the better ones for us. When many of us bought the first home computers as a creative tool in the early 1980s, we did not yet know that this would increase the causality of our system and reduce creativity. | ||
- | For the natural sciences, it is really only a matter of time when we can analyze the weather and all the chemical processes of the campfire. When all light refraction on clouds or waves are forecasted and thus our romanticism is completely disenchanted. Then it will be time for us humans to look for new sources of entropy. | ||
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- | Infolab is about all the acausal processes that need to be promoted. The acausal information, | ||
- | of the spontaneous event we have already in our hands - and that's a good thing. Historically, | ||
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