21 April 2011 17h00
IMM Studio A 2.24
Nicola Richter on the Dream of the Space between the Rays of the Arc and the Circle
We are in the middle of an inconceivable revolution and we have a problem: because we believe that we know. We observe and increasingly formulate models of reality whose ways of thinking and conditions are generated and communicated by instruments of the digital world. This fact leads, among others, to frequencies and scenarios of the Digital Revolution appearing in physical absence and therefore cannot be conceived with the instruments of conventional intelligence. For current ideas of reality are of a wholly different structure and must therefore be understood by novel imaginative forces. The arguments of dualism - of either | or – have discussed themselves to a point where they can go no further. Ideas of reality and objectivity are now represented more by models of virtuality. Consequently, categorical distinctions between thing and person, body and mind, man or woman, and the certainty of a physical value like location are obsolete. These are – by force of historical events in the field of socio-cultural change – now understood, presented and combined in the globally and digitally connected world in novel ways.
Softly – but constantly and, unquestionably, perceivably – a spiritual/mental change is taking place and the time now seems to have come to draw lessons from the lessons of past realities and to venture onto the step into the 21st century.
Hence the dream.
In the scheduled talk on The Dream of the Space between the Rays of the Arc and the Circle, Nicola Richter sketches the motives of the constellation of a theoretical and practical revolution and outlines the problems and possibilities that now apply.
In this context, she concerns herself with aspects of the prevalent and ineffable forms of a speechlessness that progresses in paradox developments of forward and backward steps.
Nicola Richter explains what potency this combination bears within itself and why it appears meaningful to activate these forces and to study and develop them further.
"Those moments own a melody my silence longs to hear." Nicola Richter
Nicola Richter is a transdisciplinary designer and has developed numerous forms of teaching and training, given talks about specific materials and products, and formulated written articles in the fields of packaging design, gender design and service design.
She thereby focuses phenomena of the digital revolution in the context de·sign.
Her exhibitions, installations and interventions are characterised by a complex approach involving objects, film, sound, and the spoken and written word.