The artist's mind

What we are interested in is the evolution of the world we live in. Developments, complications, passions, and so on. Technological progress in particular has radically altered our world. Changes which can have both a positive and negative impact. Technology stimulates creativity, a sense of community, art and love, but can destroy them just as easily.

Prelimary design

Under the heading Sex & Bytes & Rock 'n' Roll, we wish to show technology's impact on our society. Society's current components and the products it leaves behind thus form the basis of this project. An eclectic mix of old and new techniques. A critical view of technical means and instruments as symbols of unbridled perfection. The death of things organic, poetic, utopian.

The main spur for our society's electronization, digitalization, medialization and materialization is mass media. They are at the source of a world of boredom, repetition and monotony. They have created a globalized world in which strongly individualized people feel increasingly insignificant and less powerful. A world in which humanity runs the risk of being replaced by a trans-humanist existence. What about such thematic fields as virtuality, digital and analogue signals, continuity, eternity...? Shall mankind ever be replaced by machines?

The work of art in the age of digital reproduction

Developments in digitalization and electronization thus do not ensure proportionate progress in quality and quantity. They remind us that the all-powerfulness of technology is an illusion. The latter can only be as perfect, precise and efficient as the people who create it. Mass media create a dream-like world which looks increasingly more real and better than the real world we live in.

How do we orient ourselves within this electric culture

The project has led to an installation. It is a synthesis resulting from fragmentary research consisting of a wide range of experiments. They aim to reveal some of the technology with which we work. We have tried not to impose our views on this matter as a definitive result, but hope to create an awareness.

This project is about Sex and Bytes and Rock 'n' Roll, but also about technology, society, development, complications, progression, innovation, creativity, community, art, love, electronics, digital and analogue signals, materialism, mass consumerism, mass media, Hollywood, monotony, reoccurrences, recycling, globalization, humanity, trans-humanism, virtual reality, eternity, machines, computers, robots, glitches, perfection, organics, poetry, utopia, experimentation, reproduction, illusion, imagination, the intellect, reason, cause, effect, the mind, purpose, sound, noise, music, retro, interaction, nostalgia, politics, education, enlightenment, science, graphic design, control, discipline, image, interrelations, holism, frustration, data, metadata, communication, philosophy, entertainment, privacy, electronic culture, paradigms, self-education, progress, meta-cognitive awareness, artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, circuit bending, science fiction, porn, ...

The work starts from sound, electronics and circuit bending. More specifically, it creates a generative link between image and sound. In this respect, it is a reinterpretation of the communicative function of graphic design.

Technology used: Max/Msp, Arduino