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14.02.03 The Chrono-Files, from time-based art to database.
At the Ort für aktuelle Kunst und neue Medien in Munich (Germany), the exhibition The Chrono-Files, from time-based art to database, opened a few days ago. It tries to analyse the transformations of the value of information, of its preservation and of its memory produced by the digital technologies. One of the most controversial aspects, as stressed by the organizers Margit Rosen and Dr. Christian Schoen, is that the status of 'originality' is not attributed to its intrinsic aura anymore, but to its planetary reachability. Contextually, the duration of this type of culture is linked to the thin thread of the ever-updating hardware, incompatible with the past, and to the fragility of its storage devices. This inconstant nature of data, inherent in the unstable equilibrium supporting it, is underscored in the works selected for the exhibition. One installation is 'switch enlightenment', by Jörg Auzinger, which, showing a loop taken from the film Fahrenheit 451, directed by Truffaut in 1966, highlights the conflict between traditional media (a book) and electronic technologies. Other works are ./logicaland, an online sociopolitical game, and Metaplex, a virtual environment which reproduces films and videos from different places, knocking down the walls and, more generally, the limits of space of a traditional museum. There are also the three-dimensional representation of data of IP-III, the robot 'Kurt', which can tattoo images taken from the Net on the skin, and especially Unmovie, a french-german project which relates a conversation between persons and software bots with streaming videos conditioned by the conversation itself.