Hall 4 of the Expo2000 theme park deals with ‘Knowledge, Information, Communication’. The ZKM team Hannover, (affiliated to the ZKM, Center for Art and Mediatechnology, Karlsruhe) present an exhibition which concerns itself primarily with the development of new media and so-called ‘intelligent systems’.
The leitmotive of the exhibition is the ‘post-biological human’, a visionary sketch of 21st century human.
72 exhibition modules were developed; these move completely freely on a surface of 5000 square metres.
Capsules exist in three different sizes, the largest of which is over 4.5m long; they move slowly, sliding through the exhibition space, avoiding obstacles, reacting to the presence of visitors, coordinating themselves in relation to each other, and thus forming a swarm of robots.
This swarm behaves – similarly to flocks of birds or a schools of herrings – as a ‘superorganism’, a social group, whose qualities and characteristics can only exist as a cooperation arising from a multiplicity of individuals.
The piece is informed by the Expanded Cinema movement, the installation functions as a gigantic real-time film editing system, the visitor is an active element in this system.
Films are projected onto the milky surface shells of the robots.
The visitor moves through the exhibition, and assembles a personal film, choosing from a huge supply of images and clips.
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