Published by Spatial Media Laboratories
Design by Femke Herregraven
Book, 64 pp., English text, illustrated
Contains essays by Arie Altena, Joost Rekveld and Murray Horne
In a pitch black room twelve screens and twelve speakers form an audiovisual horizon. The sound in the space is an ever changing soundscape of digital noise, while abstract computer generated visuals unfold on the twelve vibrating and flickering screens. The images and sounds that make up this overwhelming immersive environment are generated in real time by computers, the software running on the computers is written by Telcosystems.
What makes this work fascinating, interesting and important? How do the artists think about the technology they use? What do they hope to achieve with their work and what defines such an artwork to be a success?
The book 12_Series, published by Spatial Media Laboratories in Rotterdam, contains essays by Arie Altena, Joost Rekveld and Murray Horne and sheds light on the ideas, working methods and research Telcosystems has been conducting for this installation.
Telcosystems’ work is developed through a tight-knit dialogue with the computer, often forcing the computer to its limits. They use evolutionary models in their algorithms for generating their audiovisual compositions. The complexity in their work emerges out of variation and mutation of rudimentary patterns. But this publication also shows how Telcosystems conducted research into the experience of spatiality, and the place their works claim between installation, film and sound. Images, photos and technical details make the picture complete.
12_Series is the first publication of Spatial Media Laboratories, a foundation dedicated to the production of and publication on works of art.
The installation 12_Series was developed at BALTAN Laboratories as part of the Poème Numérique investigations.
Telcosystems, 12_Series, 2009
