Valentina Vuksic (DE) "Sei Personaggi pt. 2"

Experimental Piece in Computers
Computer Noise Installation

The six characters of the italian playwriter Luigi Pirandello are still in search for a play, a stage and an audience. The original play is called "Six characters in search of an author" and dates back to 1921.
In this installation - the continuation - the six characters occupy time and space of six outdated computers. Time beating processors and working memories determine time and space of their new stage, which spreads over the interiors of the networked machines. Microphones follow the fleeting trails of the characters inside the systems' kernels. The visitors listen to the live memory noise produced by the family of six: each one being represented by a computer process on one machine within one linux system.

http://sei-personaggi-part2.ch

Valentina Vuksic biography notes:
I approach soft- and hardware through magnetic pickup microphones. The uncovered and amplified noise mediates processes enfolding within orchestrated soft- and hardware spaces.