New Media
Zuse’s Lemma (2007) | View Project
Quicktime video (5 minutes)
Zuse’s Lemma is an update of Hollis Frampton’s structural film Zorn’s Lemma (1970, 59 minutes). Zorn’s Lemma is based on mathematician Max Zorn’s “lemma,” the 11th axiom of set theory, proposing that, in a “set of sets,” there is a further set composed of a representative item from each set. If Zorn’s Lemma appeared on YouTube, what kind of “responses”—videos made by other users as replies, remakes, updates or critiques—would it inspire? Zuse’s Lemma is one such imaginary YouTube response. The video is named after Konrad Zuse, inventor and engineer of the so-called “first computer.” Zuse’s Lemma converts the standard Roman alphabet into the binary number system (a series of zeroes and ones) and uses this “code” to (re)define its structure.
The Next 7 Days (2006) | View Project
Audio website
The Next 7 Days presents a series of seven remixes of auditory weather reports. The tracks re-orchestrate the phonetic and sonic content of the reports (with ambient sounds), transforming their informational functionality into an abstract soundscape of the next seven days.
By clicking on each day of the week, you may hear the tracks in succession. Or, to actively remix the remixes, click “mix.”
MyGlass Chain (2005) | View Group Profile
MySpace intervention
MyGlass Chain investigates the transposition of physical, informational and social architecture. In December 2005, I collaborated with three other artists to create a series of profiles on the social networking site MySpace for members of the Glass Chain, a group of German architects who envisioned an ideal society that would be united by a new model of physical and communal architecture. Their use of a cryptic language, adoption of pseudonyms, and the exchange of words and pictures among a set of members are aspects that resonate with the structure of Internet communities like MySpace. The Glass Chain “friends” interacted in the MySpace network for a number of weeks, and may be continuing to do so at this time.
The Glass Chain “impersonators” are only one possible intervention of this kind. We encourage you to create your own fake profiles of intellectual interest, infiltrate the social spaces of the Internet, and help re-imagine its architecture. The Glass Chain is a communal project; you may participate, in addition, by adopting their identities.
Additional Links:
Metablog: http://faithvsform.blogspot.com
Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos
Time Lapse (01:57) (2005) | http://tktok.blogspot.com
Conceptual weblog
“The loss of, on average, 1 minute and 57 seconds; or, a portrait of an invisible network through the notation of arbitrary times and the impossibility of liveness. GIVEN: 1. Time is an arbitrary construct 2. The delay of information processing and transmission. ALLOWED: The documentation of time-keeping devices and the ‘immediate’ posting of images to a blog. SHOWN: Time lapse.”