nocinema.org: Travelling without Moving :: Oboro Center, Montreal (CAN - QC) :: curated by Suzanne Jaschko :: November 3 - December 8, 2007 :: Works by Heman Chong (SP), Angela Detanico / Rafael Lain (BR), Jérôme Joy (FR), radioqualia (NZ/GB), Sascha Pohflepp / Jakob Schillinger (DE), Marius Watz (NO).

Nocinema.org (1999-2007) is an automatic process, drawing upon strings of live streaming webcams across the world, transmitting live scenes collected from different locations with added panoramic movements and temporized on-line editing, into which some black shots are inserted (listening without visual). The sound, each time offering a different sequenced overlay, comes from a shared sound files database which is fed and updated by a team of sound artists / partners, including Magali Babin, DinahBird, Christophe Charles, Yannick Dauby, Chantal Dumas, Emmanuelle Gibello, Jérôme Joy, Luc Kerléo, Alain Michon and Jocelyn Robert.

Presented in its first version at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis at the end of the nineties, nocinema.org is an ever- evolving streaming application developed by Jérôme Joy: French artist and composer. This project is a net-based documentary / fiction of web interludes that appear differently each time. Nocinema.org can be interpreted as an improbable cinema or a movie in which both actors and action appear to have wandered out of shot, having no beginning and no end, no participants and no storyboard, except perhaps subjective interpretations born of an impulse to impose purpose and meaning upon random stimuli.

From the introduction by Susanne Jaschko: The exhibition Travelling Without Moving deals with the changes in today’s notions of travelling due to an often mediatized perception of the surrounding world. Technological innovation has increased the speed of travel and the range of distances that can be reached in real time. By the same token, the modern traveller has developed a strong desire to feel a connection with home. Mobile devices fulfill this desire, but also disconnect the traveller from his or her surroundings. One might argue that today’s mobility implies movement on the surface - the surface of the city, the surface of culture. That it means travelling without moving - and perhaps without being moved. The six selected artworks can be regarded as results of, or comments on, this changed perception and conveyance of the world. More than this, they are representatives of a new aesthetics of digital minimalism and condensed experience.

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