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The MWMO's boat cruises down the Mississippi River north of downtown Minneapolis, carrying the monitoring team from one sampling site to the next.
Mobiles
In the 1980s, during the early debates about postmodernism, Lyotard pointed out a similarity between a car’s windshield and a television monitor. The driver and passengers sit inside the vehicle, watching the square window-screen for hours. There is a clear parallel to large video projections on walls and to laptop operators propelling electronic sounds and visuals through a space.
When I first witnessed live laptop performances on stage about five years ago—Ikue Mori among them—projected videos were rare. Still, I couldn’t help but see the resemblance to driving a car: audiences watch people on stage as if they were steering invisible vehicles.
In the meantime, countless “drivers” have placed their “windows” on stage as well. The driving narratives of sound have evolved through electric drums, synthesizers, noise instruments, vacuum cleaners, feedbacks, Harley Davidsons, toys, radios, samplers, turntables, sine waves, tools, non-input mixers, neon, hardware without software, iPods, laptops, and more. The audio “engine” so far has often been the acoustic accident—the digital “mistake,” the overdriven filter, and so on. (See also the early 1990s productions from the Frankfurt-based labels “Mille Plateaux” and “Oval.”)
In the mega-metropolis of Seoul, RELAY laptop and video performers usually sit while performing, just like real car drivers. Their journeys in sound and vision are time-stretched and square-shaped, visually filled with what Max Bense called redundancy. Actual Seoul drivers often spend hours in their cars traveling short distances. Many have small TV screens in front of their windshields and always carry their mobile phones. Some drive to artificial square ponds—giant, TV-like water surfaces—where they sit in car chairs, fishing while surrounded by speakers that feed them with sonic stimulation.
Returning from fishing, Seoulites sit once again in traffic jams, watching television in their cars. When they finally reach their apartments, they park in basement garages, take automatic elevators upstairs, and once again find themselves before their giant, always-on TV monitors. From morning to night. Timeless. Formless. Content. Well-mooded.
RELAY laptop and video performers exist without shape or fixed place—always somehow at home, yet nowhere. As if driving endlessly along the peninsula’s highways, west toward the coast, into the Yellow Sea and beyond—perhaps to Hong Kong, maybe even to Europe. Who cares?
In tiny Frankfurt, one can enter a car and plan the driving time precisely. There are almost no traffic jams. Efficiency in time and space defines movement. One can easily calculate all coordinates in advance. Frankfurt’s compact layout allows swift crossings through the city. If you want mistakes to become art, you simply create them. If you want to reduce redundancy, you quickly shift to the information side. Form is controllable, shaped with precision and calculation. Yes or no decisions are made quickly, and everyone constantly cares about everything — and nonsense alike.
A23H, 2005
Amongst all the old technology that makes up the distillery, it was interesting to see this modern computer room to oversee the distilling process.
El monitor Huáscar es un buque de guerra del siglo XIX de destacada participación en la Guerra del Pacífico. Fue construido en el Reino Unido en 1864 por orden del gobierno peruano y sirvió en la Marina de Guerra del Perú hasta el 8 de octubre de 1879, día en que fue capturado por la escuadra chilena en el combate naval de Angamos. El Huáscar sirvió activamente en la Armada de Chile hasta 1897, año en que fue dado de baja. Actualmente sirve como museo flotante en el puerto chileno de Talcahuano. Es una de las pocas naves de guerra de su época que aún permanece a flote.
Former ROC Nuclear Monitoring bunker near Great Doddington, Northants. Over 1500 of these were built across the UK. Their purpose was the monitoring of nuclear blasts and fallout should the Cold War ever turn hot. 4 people would be housed in here along with the equipment needed to monitor the quality of the air outside and report back to central government.
This bunker is relatively intact, if a bit overgrown.
Imagenes de la Marcha en apoyo a Radio Monitor, Ciudad de México ... 08/07/07.
Radioescuchas fieles ...
While we were at Nguenya, every afternoon this monitor lizard took a walk past my father in law's patio and I was able to capture this lizard's eye view of his patrol.
Varanus bengalensis, or the Bengal Monitor Lizard. This one was around 45 cm in length: definitely a young one. The adults can grow up to 175 cm in length.
When we arrived in Sepilok at the Sepilok B&B, we quickly explored the premises and found this young Asian water monitor (Varanus salvator) searching along a shallow drain near our cottage.
Steppenwaran
savanna monitor
Varanus exanthematicus
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