biennale venice, 1995
T ELE MA T I C SC U LP T U R E 4
this mobile sculpture (length 21,8 meters, weight 1800 kg) was physically
positioned in the austrian pavilion during the biennale of venice 1995.
T.S.4 was also positioned electronically in the www of internet.
T.S.4 was driven by the data flow in internet according to an
equation comparing
the world wide computer newsgroups versus world wide art newsgroups.
according to this equation T.S.4 transcrossed the austrian
pavilion during the time of the biennale and broke through the
wall of the pavilion. internet users were invited to help preventing the machine
of reaching the wall
by accessing this pages, sending e-mail to T.S.4 or discuss it in one of
the above mentioned newsgroups. in all these cases the sculpture was
automatically forced to have a break.
the equation
s = p1*nc/na - (p2*e + p3*g + p4*cp + p5*ap)
with
- s: speed
- nc: #articles in computer newsgroups
- na: #articles in art newsgroups
- e: #e-mails to T.S.4
- g: #guests to T.S.4 home page
- cp: #articles in computer groups related to T.S.4
- ap: #articles in art groups related to T.S.4
- p1, p2, ... p5: parameters
only the extensive art dialogue in WWW, computer newsgroups as well as in
the art newsgroups delayed the crash of T.S.4 and the austrian pavilion at the
biennale of venice.