Anja Wiese
«trance machine»

Those who cannot see must listen.
The work consists of a rectangular field of 32 circles resembling tape reels and rotating clockwise. Each reel contains the fragment of a sentence. when the user touches a reel, the fragment becomes audible, then slowly fades away. Once called up, one fragment allocates itself to others in the fashion of a memory game. Four fragments at a time add up to one ‘Sinnsatz', or ‘sentence with a meaning'. The sentences are the reflections a fictional person makes about himself or herself. The interface composed of grey reels revolving against a black background undergoes no optical variation other than that the reels change their direction of rotation, vanish, and then re-appear or swap places with each other. Due to its sign-like character, the surface image is a field of orientation in the process of the game. On the other hand, its permanent uniformity and the constant rotation of every individual element makes it an optical trance field of non-informaton.

Anja Wiese