Timo Kahlen
in medias res
2020
- Artist / Artist group
- Timo Kahlen
- Title
- in medias res
- Year
- 2020
- Edition / Serial number
- 7
- Copy Number
- 2 (Artist's Proof)
- Category
- video, Film installation, Sound installation
- Material / Technique
- Interactive sound and film projection
- Dimensions / Duration
- installation dimensions variable
- Collection
- ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
- Description
Digital warmth, emotion and closeness are deceptive. Right there, in the midst of everything that’s currently
happening, virtually ‘in medias res’, and yet at the verge, physically isolated and distant. Created in times of pandemic lockdown, of home office and ‘social distancing‘. The interactive work of net art was generated live, as the viewer‘s own cursor explored visual clusters of other cursors, paused or clicked at the ‘touch‘-sensitive surface of the visual projection embedding sound and unexpected movement. Timo Kahlen‘s interactive sound / net art work »in medias res« (2020) was visible and audible at www.staubrauschen.de/in-medias-res/ during times of lockdown due to the spread of the Covid pandemic. In 2021 and 2022, the work became invisible due to the end of browser support for Flash on January 1, 2021.
