installation at wuk kunstzelle, vienna 2024​​

 

looking at misunderstandings in more detail, they have a complex life of their own. they do not only arise when different perspectives come together, but already during the communication channel.

 

especially digital communication channels influence conversations through their strong individual character. this is revealed even before a message reaches the digital interspace: we formulate what we want to say according to certain patterns that we have socially agreed upon. for example, almost no email begins without a more or less well thought-out opening that can subtly predefine the relationship between the dialogue partners. email is just one of many channels with their own characteristics that we use differently.

 

digitalisation primarily means putting something into a form that a computer can process. although user interfaces are really just interfaces. what we speak into a microphone is deconstructed into a binary code and then reconstructed as an acoustic event as soon as we play it back. on this long journey from sender to receiver, many deviations can arise that manifest themselves as traces of digitalisation.

 

lütolf's installation response: a bill - e.t. plays with these deviations through the technical attempt to convert the words spoken by the audience into text. it becomes literally readable how what is expressed can differ from what is received and all visitors are invited to experiment.