“DotScapes” encodes omnipresent media messages in reduced signs and sounds. The SOS emergency call is based on Morse code with its visual and auditory elements. Although living in a wealthy country in a long time of peace, SOS seems to be currently the main information. Wars are getting closer, as well as topics like climate catastrophe, domestic violence, political radicalization, warnings of AI, state of alarm, loss of control.
Information overload and high consumption of social media can create a state of anxiety that paralyses instead of motivate to react. DotScapes is a reaction towards this situation and a conscious decision for radical reduction.
Heaven and hell is just a whipe, a press, a fingerprint away.
I develop a minimalist audiovisual language. This is a stategy to filter and keep distance from the external flood of stimuli and to create a contrast. It is based on dot-dash notation as well as partly self created acoustic and electronic sounds and rhythms. I partly use analog, manual or hybrid techniques, inspired by experimental animated films from the 1920s and 30s as well as electronic sounds from the 1970s. The sounds and pictorial calligraphic notations lead to a media installation designed as a triptych. This is not a method to escape, but to reflect and decide with a clear mind, where and how to engage, as bass line of reality. Images and symbols of external world that are deeply anchored in our consciousness will be integrated. The whole will be documented in an accompanying exhibition.