Overgaden LECTURES: Art + Science: Towards a Third Culture? Conference: October 24th-25th 2014 Copenhagen Denmark Speakers: Geert Mul (Netherlands) Heather Barnett (UK), Ernst Peter Fischer (Germany), Ljiljana Fruk (Croatia), Iréne Hediger (Switzerland), Mette Høst (Denmark), Ryszard W. Kluszczyński (Poland), Jean-Marc Levy-Leblond (France), Roger Malina (US), Thomas Söderqvist (Denmark), Susann Wintsch (Switzerland) Geert Mul: The Analogic Database. Media artist Geert Mul has been exploring the possibilities of generating visual poetry by re-combining images from collections and databases in videos, photographs, and installations for almost 20 years. He is especially interested in the moment when meaninglessness turns into meaningfulness. While there is a lot of discussion about the datafication of culture, Mul is interested in the cultivation of data. He uses the database as a creative medium in order to create visual poetry and aesthetic experiences which lead to the creation of new types of knowledge/narratives. Mul’s next project is called Ander Nieuws (Other News) where he intends to create an overview of the Dutch TV News. By using speech to text software and semantic analyses, it will be possible to compare the use of words within the Dutch news over the last 30 years to investigate how relations, meanings and connotations shift over time. In his creative research, quantitative and qualitative methodologies for acquiring knowledge are applied in a mixed form, utilising concepts from the liberal arts and sciences. This results in a database medium which is ana-logic rather than logic and which engineers a knowledge not founded on causation but on correlation, association, and connotation. The ultimate goal of this research is to create an informational context (consisting of algorithms, interfaces and aesthetic experiences). This informational context is an analogy by itself for contemporary informational and power-related contexts such as public space. In this approach the notion of ‘the politics of information’ becomes apparent: Mul’s informational contexts allow for the inter-passive civilian to become an emancipated and creative information engineer. In this presentation Geert Mul will show some of the works he has developed over the past ten years such as Match of the Day, W4, Shan Shui, Big Data Poetry and Other News. In each work the database plays a central role.
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 07:33:18 +0000
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