From Scratch

The artist once again walking and recording on thin ice: as an homage to the fragility and frailty of all life. The fragility of a ruptured, frozen surface of water, its acoustic and sensual quality (and short-lived existence) has inspired a number of the artist’s works (who, himself, was shipwrecked near the Galapagos islands in the Pacific in 1980): including sound installations like “Breaking Ground” (2008, in Orvieto, Italy), the photographic series of “Schmelze” (Melting, 2011), the audio miniature “Bits & Pieces” for Radius (Chicago, 2011) and the interactive film and sound projection “From Scratch”, published at www.staubrauschen.de/fromscratch/ in 2011. In the interactive work of net art, viewers encounter splintering, crunching, slushing, cascading sequences of sound and vibration as their own mouse cursor meanders across a ‘touch-sensitive’ visual projection of a fragile, ruptured surface of thin ice.

Due to error, glitch, incompatibility and the fragility of the original file, in the reconstructed version on view in 2023, the sounds and images generated have been chosen to be a variation of the original work.