Space Race
A mixed media piece using other peoples vehicles (newspaper,
radio, television, internet and cars)
Intervention
On August 28th 1999 a throng of motor vehicles swarmed up
a small ramp into an abandoned railway hall in Berlin's industrial
east end.
The drifting mass of automobiles solidified, precariously
parked on a five meter wide platform. At dusk the drivers
switched on their radios, lit their blinkers and saturated
the emptiness with sound and light.
Visitors walked along the main deck and experienced an undulating
acoustic field emanating from the radios, each tuned to different
stations. This field transformed the hall's indefinite length
into a succession of distinct aural spaces, optically fused
by a blinking, pulsing mass of cars.
Context
Information technology offers us new ways of relating to
space. Resources can now be used flexibly because we can communicate
more effectively and manage information more precisely. This
enables us to realise large structures by temporarily reorganising
existing material.
Space Race created a monumental intervention with no physical
material by diverting existing traffic flows using communication
technology.
Space Race was a collaboration with büro.genial. |
