Relative realities / an enhancement of reality by Volkmar Klien, installation at the Semper Depot, Vienna.
“a pendulum swings through a space.
a video screen constitutes the pendulum bob. carving its path through the exhibition space it presents from its ever changing position a view upon another scenery.
slowly it passes the tree and the table; and then returns.
although freely swaying through space it collides with objects; invisible, but audible.
a computer traces the pendulum’s position and - in a computer model - embeds it into a mathematical world where it collides and interacts with objects. this interaction between the pendulum and its mathematical surroundings provides the source for a three-dimensional soundscape.
something is forced into motion. slowly it returns to standstill.
next time things will behave rather similarly.
only the world in the computer changes.”