in medias res

2020
© VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023; photo © ZKM | Center for Art and Media, photo: Timo Kahlen
Artist/s
Timo Kahlen
Title
in medias res
Year
2020
Edition / Serial number
7
Copy Number
2 (Artist's Proof)
Category
Video
Format
Film Installation
Sound Installation
Material / Technique
interactive sound and film projection
Dimensions / Duration
installation dimensions variable
Collection
ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
Description
Digital warmth, emotion and closeness are deceptive. Right there, in the midst of everything that’s currently
happening, virtually ‘in medias res’, and yet at the verge, physically isolated and distant. Created in times of pandemic lockdown, of home office and ‘social distancing‘. The interactive work of net art was generated live, as the viewer‘s own cursor explored visual clusters of other cursors, paused or clicked at the ‘touch‘-sensitive surface of the visual projection embedding sound and unexpected movement. Timo Kahlen‘s interactive sound / net art work »in medias res« (2020) was visible and audible at www.staubrauschen.de/in-medias-res/ during times of lockdown due to the spread of the Covid pandemic. In 2021 and 2022, the work became invisible due to the end of browser support for Flash on January 1, 2021.

Author

Timo
Kahlen

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