what is it?

An Internet site looking for winning time (Auf der Suche nach der gewonnenen Zeit), http://www.lookingforwinningtime.info 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 en-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 Rotunda Gallery, 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 viewers 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.
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The exhibition is organized by the Guest Lecturers / Visiting Artists series of the Visual Communication Program

and promoted by the Swiss Arts Council