An Internet site with a search engine allows every request to be turned into a picture box; the information is turned into a picture world, a decoration. (decoration being here defined as the non decipherable information being transferred accordingly into an abstract construction. A visual pattern is developed with a code as base). The project is an ongoing investigation about the common sense of visual communication as a tool to decipher or un-decipher messages. It pulls apart and constructs new versions of data and processes, how communication can be visualized with globally digitally accessible resources.

For the exhibition at the Gallery in Dubai, participants (students and others) use a number of riddles to be unraveled and some poems from "The Diwan" by the Persian poet Hafiz (14th Century or 8th Century A.H.]. They request selected words, which then are represented as boxes. Hundreds of assembled boxes are installed as architectural arrangement into the physical space.

Eventually one will not "discover" the original text. Nevertheless, the view of the installation functions like an impression of it. It might animate the viewer's curiosity for either viewing the countless pictures, the architectural construction or enjoying fantasizing about their own interpretations, allowing approaches towards the development of patterns through media produced geometrical rhythmical figures.

more ... also at Panoptikon,

or at search and reply,
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Gulf News, Dubai; November 30, 2008

Informations at the Panoptikon
of the American University in Dubai




The exhibition in Dubai is supported by
Swiss Arts Council.


The project is a result of the research 2006 - 2008
"Auf der Suche nach der gewonnenen Zeit",
supported by Media Art / Sitemapping of
Federal Office of Culture, Switzerland