Last Plateau residency DarkMatr

Tue 17/7

Today we’re riding to the Czech border, to a little village called Slavonice. We need to get there by three o’clock and during the morning we split up in three groups… Nico and Carla are biking directly following Marta, the Spanish GPS. Pacôme and Patrick are following the fold via the navigation GPS. Loes and Paulo are joining them to the fold and from there on they follow Bonnie, the English GPS.

Group 2 is the fastest and luckily everybody catches the last train to Kostelec where we change for Brno, little Prague. It’s quite shocking to be in a ‘big’ city all of a sudden..

NL – Tom Heene, media kunstenaar en cineast in residentie, werkt met zijn collega’s Jack Boyer (o.a. rybn.org, antidatamining) en Nicolas Montgermont (o.a. chdh) aan de tweede versie van zijn installatie DarkMatr.

De installatie gebruikt data van het net om een soort poëtische chatbot (chattende robot) te creëren die met jou en andere users communiceert op basis van datamining (teksten, citaten, dialogen en beelden).

De dialoog die je zo aangaat zal je opslorpen in een filosofisch-grafisch-cinematografische discours.

EN – Tom Heene, filmmaker and media artist in residence, is working with his colleagues Jack Boyer (rybn.org, antidatamining) and Nicolas Montgermont (chdh) on the second version of his installation DarkMatr.

The installation uses data from the net to create a kind of poetic chatbot (chatting robot) that communicates with you and other users by means of data mining (texts, quotes, dialogues and images).

The dialogue you are starting will then absorb you in a kind of philosophical-graphical-cinematographical discourse.

Public Showing: 30 & 31 March – 2-6pm

In collaboration with iMal