24/7
202324/7 is a site specific multi channel installation which combines field recordings of server farm which serve TU Dresden University with the human voice. Inspired by the growing world of high performance computing the work includes the sound of whirring ventilation systems as well as the isolated microtonal sounds emitted from different racks of supercomputers. These evolve into a human/machine choir which hums and vibrates viscerally replicating the intensity of the working server farm environment.
The work walks us through a sequence of moods through its use of colour and sound, attempting to attune us to a hidden reality beyond our immediate grasp. Emails are recited within the artwork which were sent at exactly the same time as the recording of the server racks in Dresden. It was these specific online activities that caused the noise, the reading of them points to the obscure connection between remote communication and the self-movement of the technological forces that we set in motion by so doing.
16 channel audio installation, 4 subwoofers, 32 cameo lights, 4 site-specific cubes (2m x 2m), wood and CYC fabric
Photography: Frank Kleinbach (Sindelfingen)