Timo Kahlen's interactive work of net art /source/ (Postfactual), 2017 invites the viewer to search for reliable sources, for valid ‘facts’, for trusted nodes of information on the internet. A seemingly void, monochrome white surface is all it shows; and frustrates the viewer with a mouse cursor, which is difficult to locate, to control and direct, as isolated potential ‘facts’ pop up in interaction with the cursor : appearing but distorted, head-over and uncomfortably remote, as if projected onto the reverse side of the computer screen. Accumulating alternative facts are accompanied by outbursts of sound and bustle, only to be quenched and extinguished shortly afterwards.
The award-winning, interactive work is composed of multiple embedded layers of sound woven into a touch-sensitive visual projection. It is generated by the viewer – always different and always live -, depending on the relative position, movement, and speed, on eventual pauses or changes in direction of the mouse cursor moving across the touch-sensitive projection. Users are invited to hover above, roll over, pause or click at the ‘empty’ white surface of the computer display with the mouse cursor to discover the interactive work in real-time.
Published in 2017 at staubrauschen.de/source/
Honorary Mention at the Junge Akademie’s and ZKM’s prize question “What’s the Net Listening To ?” (Was hört das Netz ?) in 2017
See a short video documentary (HD, 2:32 min, stereo, created for FILE Festival 2022)
at https://vimeo.com/704838270
or the full documentary of Timo Kahlen's works of Net Art 2005 - 2020 at https://vimeo.com/441602551
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With the end of browser support for the interactive Flash Player on December 31, 2020 all of Timo Kahlen's works of net art have finally vanished from the internet. They have become invisible & inaudible.
However, even today, by simply installing the Ruffle add-on in your browser (see ruffle.rs), Kahlen's interactive works can be re-animated (emulated) and experienced on your device.
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The original interactive works are visible and audible at :
staubrauschen.de/audiodust/ (Audio Dust, 2011)
staubrauschen.de/articulate/ (articulate, 2018)
staubrauschen.de/carpe/ (Carpe Diem, 2011)
staubrauschen.de/dioden/ (Diodenzwitschern, 2006)
staubrauschen.de/fromscratch/ (From Scratch, 2011)
staubrauschen.de/drama/ (Drama, 2011)
staubrauschen.de/error/ (/error/, 2020)
staubrauschen.de/in-medias-res/ (in medias res, 2020)
staubrauschen.de/insignificant/ (insignificant, 2020)
staubrauschen.de/migrtaion/ (migrtaion,2016)
staubrauschen.de/numbers/ (Numbers, 2011 or 2013)
staubrauschen.de/ping/ (ping tschä tschä, 2005)
staubrauschen.de/rohschnitt/ (Rohschnitt,2016)
staubrauschen.de/source/ (Source (postfactual), 2017)
staubrauschen.de/signal/ (Signal-To-Noise, 2011)
staubrauschen.de/sounddrift/ (Sound Drift, 2005 with Ian Andrews)
staubrauschen.de/mistakes/ (The Essence of Art, 2016)
staubrauschen.de/unstable/ (/unstable/, 2017)
staubrauschen.de/delete/ (Undo/Delete, 2011)
staubrauschen.de/ur/ (UR, 2006)
staubrauschen.de/compatible/ (YesNo, 2011; re-released 2016)
All works documented here collection and courtesy of the artist, the Ruine der Künste Berlin, ZKM Karlsruhe, Cornell University, FILE Festival and Akademie der Künste Berlin.
All copyrights: Timo Kahlen / VG Bild-Kunst 2005-2022