Christian Faubel: Crystal Forming Robots (Installation) & Songs from my analogue Utopia (Performance)

Songs from my analogue utopia

12 nov | 3 - 4 PM

In songs from my analogue utopia I explore the self- organizing coordination dynamics of analog oscillators and the Utopian potentials of analogue communication. In analogue communication synchronization and coordination appear as an emergent effects and are not codified. Because synchronization results from the mutual interaction of two or more processes, not a single process is dominating the other. It is in the mutuality and in the degrees of freedom of each participating process where i see the Utopian potential of analogue communication.

The concepts of emergent synchronization and coordination become tangible and can be experienced through the construction of simple analog oscillators that drive little motors placed on the overhead projector. The motors swing back and forth little legs that hit on rubber strings which are spanned across the projector. During the performance I play with the coupling between the oscillators, with the internal parameters of each oscillator and with the environment, the spatial configuration of the rubber strings and with the materiality of the rubber strings, a score and shadow play emerges. http://www.bidff.ro/faubeleng