CLUSTER
When smoke rises into the air, it´s visible from a great distance. An event inscribes itself into the sky for a brief time. Indigenous North Americans in particular are said to have made practical use of this, sending information with the aid of smoke signals.
When making CLUSTER Rainer Gamsjäger created a ten-meter column of smoke and filmed it on videotape. This served as the raw material for his examination of digital information. In addition to the apparatus used to transfer information, being able to encode and then decode it is essential. In the case of smoke signals, information is...
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Orig. Title
CLUSTER
CLUSTER
Year
2010
2010
Country
Duration
8 min 40 sec
8 min 40 sec