Project Phonethica: Installation »off the wall« – prototype development

open studio: 3 - 25.2.2006, Tuesday to Saturday, 6pm - 11pm

Open studio for transmediale06: 3.-6.2.2006. 6pm to 11pm

Closing Party: 25.2.2006 at 6pm

Takumi Endo (Artist) - Concept and Direction

Martin Riches (Artist) – Research and Development, Realization

Kazuyasu Kochi (Architect) – Technical Contribution

Götz Dihlmann (Theatre Technician) – Construction

Special thanks to Manfred Fox, Aleksander Kolkowski and Jost Muxfeldt

»off the wall« is a large scale sound installation based on a perversion of technology invented by Thomas Edison in 1877.

»off the wall« is one of the dissemination strategies of »Project Phonethica« - an interdisciplinary media art project which explores the world through phonetics.

development of the installation began in Berlin at the end of 2005 and a prototype will now be built and tested for one month in an “open studio” at TESLA in the Podewils’schen Palais. It will be exhibited in Tokyo, Hong Kong, Berlin, Prague and other locations from 2006 through 2007.

»Project Phonetica«

Fifty to ninety percent of the world’s languages are predicted to disappear within the next century. Project Phonethica explores the diversity of the world through the phonetics of its approximately 6,000 existing languages using the technology of media art - the youngest child of art in the 20th Century. Project Phonethica is being developed according to a road map to be held over the course of four years. The project began in Tokyo and Paris in 2004, aiming to collect fundamental data through a wide range of interviews with for example: artists, scientists, composers, linguists, phoneticians, anthropologists, philosophers, and sociologists. During this period of time, research and development has also been undertaken with a project co-founder Nao Tokui (researcher/artist:ww.naotokui.com) in order to develop »Phonethica« - a computer system based on the phonetic feature of language. The project will be disseminated to the public in the form of an online tool, an interactive installation and other media all over the world from 2006 through 2007.

Takumi Endo (Composer, Media Artist) is a current guest-composer of DAAD Berliner Kunstlerprogramm.

Further Information: www.inexhale.net and www.phonethica.net/blog

www.tesla-berlin.de

Studio 2 at TESLA im Podewils’schen Palais, Klosterstraße 68-70, 10179 Berlin.

This project is being supported by DAAD Berlin kunstlerprogramm and Information Technology Promoting Agency, Japan