NOISE TO SIGNALS

A COLLABORATIVE GCOLLAGE
August 27th - September 2nd 9th

EXTENDED: GCollage will still be on for the next week at the Fleetstreet Theater in Hamburg. Drop by and say hello!

Now what's all this about?

Neonlichtung is proposing a surreal perspective on the resources making up that thing we call the internet.

The first installment in a series of experiments will take place for seven days at the Fleetstreet Theater in Hamburg, but is also open to be joined by you from the comfort of your own home. Though it's up to you, we really prefer you showing up here!

How does it work?

The first part is quite similar to the current GCollage website. You enter a search query and GCollage fetches 10 random images and cuts them up.

When it comes to composing the image you will be in charge by dragging your slices onto a virtual canvas where you can stick them on. The canvas is a large projection in the gallery and is also visible on the web.

No matter if you are in the gallery or at home, your actions will be visible in realtime to everyone else sticking stuff on the canvas. The slices will layer over each other in the process but their positions at a specific time will be recorded.

The Building At the finissage (September 2nd) we will do a retrospective on the development of the canvas over the seven days.

The Building will act both as a canvas for the projected images and will be actually triggering the movement in time with their instruments.

What is Noise To Signals?

In sound technology there is the White Noise which lets you extract virtually any sound if the right filters are applied to it. It is a structureless signal but can be molded into a structure with the right tools.

We see the web quite similarly with it's vast amounts of digitalised content ranging over many formats. Essentially this information can be broken down to it's basic form of numbers and can be looked upon in the most abstract way. Application code turns to sound, sound to numbers, numbers to video and so on.

The web offers many tools allowing us to "tap" into these resources, pull the information and process it using other remote tools or our own homegrown ones, let them influence each other or throw a bit of randomness into the mix. Let's combine all this and create the "Surreal Web".

It's like painting and sculpting with information and you don't need to be a master hacker to do this. We are putting together a library that GCollage is also built upon and would love to hear your input and see your takes on this. It will be on Github on the day of the opening. Maybe we can do the next exhibition together!

Neu! HomieTV