2010 Muted Distortions: There is no outside

This exhibition brought together a group of artists, architects, designers, and programmers into an exploration of the conceptual figure of noise*. 

The exhibition becomes a laboratory setup where rather than just a collection of fixed products, works function as individual researches in terms of ongoing processes. 

Tied together by a common point of departure (the noise), works diffuse into a diverse set of disciplines (fine arts, illustration, motion design, etc.).  In the context of the Post-Fordist utopia where the industrial infrastructures are becoming immaterial clouds of information, life tends to be completely invested by acts of production and reproduction. While for the past generations leisure time meant disappearing from the mass production chain, the modern man produces new immaterial products (pages, groups, etc.) for corporations like Facebook, reproduces and distributes multinational corporations products (movies, music, etc.) through private massive channels of information like Google. Thus social life itself becomes all the more a productive machine. To the extent to which living and producing tend to be indistinguishable, it seems that there is no longer any “outside”.  

Trapped in this loophole of our postmodern presentwe tune on its less audible refractionsto noise*. Muted distortions represent the process of disruption as a structuring element of the everydayThe interference in the flow of information channelsIt is the noisebut it is also a messagea bit of information producing the rupture of information. 

 

Location: Mediamatic Athens, Greece: Association: TAF The Art Foundation
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