THE WORLD IS ROUND AND HAS NO END

R111 is an interactive installation. energy-potentials are cannibalized off the internet
and from the local movement of spectators in the physical space of R111.

these energies are then transformed into various states of matter – both physical and
virtual – and presented by the installation with the help of several modules.

new media actual tendencies are virtualizing reality. R111 on the opposite
materializes virtuality: choreographing particles of matter as though they were pixels.

yukiko shikata:

“visitors can participate and feel how energies are generated and transformed as
different phenomena ranging from the virtual worlds to actual transformations of
material, influencing each other. internet users can remotely participate and influence
the work during the exhibition period.

the energies of the material world that we maintain and realize as such are transferred
into the information space and networks, on which today's information society is
centered. in this world where every existing fact can be information-processed, how
can we sense the energies, such as intellectual, mental, and economic power, loaded
into information?

R111 is a word coined by saup combining R1, an experimental film by oscar fishinger
in the 1920s, and 111 that means the number seven in the binary system. in R1,
fishinger showed the interaction of images and sound in an abstract and poetic
expression. gottfried leibnitz, a philosopher in the 17th century, who initiated the
binary system, thought that everything and every sense could be reduced to numbers
(the binary system). he was very fond of the binary number 111 (= decimal 7) and
believed it to be a revelation of god.”

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