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karl  grümpe 
&  ren
e   p.g

visual and sound arts

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duality as multiplicity (2023)
interactive video installation.

cameras and speakers. a polymorphic environment centered on the viewer who is called upon to shape it. in this closed system of components, personal choices may conflict with the totality of individuals present in the space. Interaction can bring harmony or chaos.

at the old elementary school of psarades -

prespes (gr)

the technical term “lag” is used to describe the delay in running applications or commands on a computer due to overloading of the processor from other tasks and determining the time it takes a server to respond. jet lag (desynchronization) is the gap created by the time difference in transatlantic travel, where the body tries to keep up with a new time condition. this condition is not related to the duration of the flight, but to the inter-meridian (west-east) distance traveled. it is a natural phenomenon resulting from changes in body rhythms, which are affected by rapid trans-meridian transport by high-speed aircrafts.

“cultural lag” is the gap created between the evolution of technology and the evolution of culture. each culture, as a body, tries to follow technological developments and adapt to them, sometimes with receptivity and sometimes with denial. thus, the constant desynchronization creates an increasing gap, resulting in the time delay trapping the social body in a continuous transition period, which includes insecurity, stress and anxiety. the visual demand and the reflection, in  this case  of  the disturbance

of the virtual as well as the real time that a society has to transition or even get used to some new technological changes and developments, is the same as the gap that arises from the absence of synchronization with a current situation. “lag” as an intermediate place, as a place of transition. thus the alternations and metaphors back and forth in the history of art and humanity, shape the present we are in today, on the road of the 4th industrial revolution towards a new singularity. from the concept of landscape, to the art of today, to new materiality, to digital reality and binge-watching. 

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