Serendipity refers to the gift or ability to find something unexpected and useful while looking for something else, or the art of finding what you’re not looking for. Victor Taba’s installation is based on chance, a process built on current technologies, but above all on an approximate method. In contrast to an exact algorithm for an optimal solution to the desired effect, music and video here live together but independently.
This installation has a heuristic intent, a bit like watching television without sound and putting on a record. A visual and sound zapping with musicians and the label’s graphic designer Tsuku Boshi.
Remote control, random change of radio stations or the Ipod’s random option, browsing from page to page on the Internet… these three Australian researchers have carried out a study on the impact of shuffling.
From the impression of auditory surprises to voluntary loss within hypertext links, this process provokes pleasures and addictions, as well as feelings of freedom and unanticipated, infinite discovery.
For the artists on this label, these events (or « accidents ») open up new avenues for their artistic projects. For the public, it’s a new way of discovering this universe via visual or musical hooks, by taking side roads (Abode software blog), but also a discovery, by chance or by sagacity, of a moment of harmony.
This installation is offered in the form of live performances by the artists (graphic & musical…). To continue the experience, an original CD is offered to the public, made from elements of the installation. The installation can also be accompanied by large-format developments on drawing paper.