Brida and project Modux 3.4

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Modux 3.4 Kunst museum Lentos, Ars Electronica, Linz (A), 2008

The project evolves around our entering between the layers of digital and analogue visual information. Using a digital media, such as a monitor, we enter the data processing core which is otherwise invisible and seen as some distant and abstract concept.  Modux 3.4 is a module which enables us to do something rather unusual with this otherwise everyday interface with the help of which we usually enter the system of mathematical calculations and displays. This time, something mathematically indefinable actually and physically interferes. A matrix of liquid crystals is detached from the light source which makes information display possible. This matrix is shifted across analogue image, performs readings and calculates parameters which are eventually displayed on the monitor.  Mechanical movement of the matrix along the image makes it possible to capture a wider field of visual information and, at the same time, to follow the observer who finds himself integrated in this composition of data. Optical sensors built into the mobile module detect movement and transmit any matrix position change in real time. Detection of changes on the image surface through the coordinates x and y triggers an audio application, as well, thereby helping the observer to follow the visual information transformed into sound and thus to listen to the density of calculated changes…