SPILLOVER
Videograms of Experimentation
This projects focuses on audiovisual process protocols (so-called "Videograms") of scientific experimental systems that spill over from the usual circulation of images and as ancillary or waste products attract no further attention. It explores such discarded media output on the basis of material collected in select behavioural biology laboratories, turning found footage into works of art subsequently placed on exhibition and debated at symposia and in book publications. Through securing and rendering accessible the scientific production of images for theoretical and artistic elaboration, the project opens up passages to instrumental media worlds, which can steer and control processes in early experimental phases without (aesthetic) observers. These are introduced in two ways: on the one hand, through recontextualising the self-registering activities of experimental work; on the other, through considering the data obtained through science studies, media theory, and fine arts case studies. The project adopts theoretical and artistic perspectives to inquire into the control media engaged in covert action. Besides developing hypotheses towards a theory of involuntary media signatures, the project also develops artistic procedures that open up such phenomena to aesthetic readings.
Projectdirector: Prof. Hannes Rickli
E-Mail: hannes.rickli(ät)zhdk.ch
PDF in English: «Spillover. Reflections on the Aesthetics of Adjunct Matter» Hannes Rickli in conversation with Peter Geimer, in: Prix Meret Oppenheim 2004. Interviews», Bundesamt für Kultur, Bern, 2005
