Infoteooria järgi on ideaalne kommunikatsioon see, kus signaal läheb läbi kanali ilma müra või vigadeta. Täiuslikku sõnumit pole aga olemas, sest signaal põrkub alati kokku müraga. Mida kaugemale levib signaal, seda rohkem müra teda murrab. Sõnum hajub, kood katkeb, tähendus libiseb. Peegel ei peegelda, peegel errordab.
MIЯЯOЯERROR toob kokku Toomas Volkmanni algosakesteks lagunenud kõverpeeglid ning Kiwa vea ja tühjuse poeetika. Mis juhtub siis, kui täiuslik sõnum katkeb – mitte ainult tehniliselt, vaid ka eksistentsiaalsel tasandil? Kas katkiste andmevoogude vahele võib tekkida uus kood, uued signaalid, mida mineviku inimene ei suuda mõista – ja võib-olla pole ka meie endi tajud veel selleks valmis?
Kiwa ja tehisintellekti loodud helisagedused äratavad ellu Eesti muistsed ussimustrid tundmatu tulevikukeelega. Raamatud täituvad tühjuse ja tühisuse tähendusega, peeglid peegeldavad midagi, mida palja silmaga ei näe – iseenda varjatud olemust. Viga pole Kiwa loomingus miski, mida tuleb parandada – glitch ise on info. Error is a feature.
Informatsiooniteooria rajaja Claude Shannoni järgi on informatsiooniks ainult need sõnumid, mille esinemist ei saa vastuvõtja ennustada. Toomas Volkmanni vana kõvaketas avanes tehnoloogilisel opilaual ootamatute kolletena. Piltide purunemised ja bitijuppide põrkumised on kokku toonud kummalised kihid. If you could see what I hear, kajab kõvakettal elavate kodanike krigisev ja katkendlik kaja. Tehnoloogiline error võib muutuda kontrollimatuks kratiks, kelle tuju otsustab, millised sõnumid meist täna ja igaveseks eksisteerima jäävad. Kui Volkmanni fotodesse sekkunud tehnoloogiline tont on tootnud lopsakat-glichitud müravahtu, siis Kiwa loomingu kohal seisab tühjuse ja mittemiski otsing, püüdlemine vahustamata terviku poole.
MIЯЯOЯERRORi bitibiitide vahel mängib „Põrgu“ tehnotooniline remix, glitter sähvib ja peegli peegeldusse on tekkinud kirgastunud vaim. Erinevad helistikud kohtuvad ja pidu alles algab.
Kuraator Bianka Soe
Kujundus Tuuli Aule
Tänu: Marleen Suvi, Mihkel Soe, Daniel Vaarik
Näitust toetavad Eesti Kultuurkapital, Põhjala Pruulikoda.
Näituse avamisel mängivad muusikat DJ Lotte Jürjendal ja DJ Court Rat.
On Friday, 23rd of May at 6 pm opens a group exhibition titled "MIЯЯOЯERROR" by KIWA and Toomas Volkmann at Vaal Gallery. The exhibition will remain open until 28th of June, Tue–Fri 12–6 pm and Sat 12–4 pm.
According to information theory, ideal communication is where a signal passes through a channel without noise or errors. However, there is no perfect message because a signal always collides with noise. The further a signal travels, the more noise fractures it. The message scatters, the code breaks, the meaning slips. The mirror does not reflect, the mirror errs.
MIЯЯOЯERROR brings together Toomas Volkmann’s curved mirrors broken down into elementary particles, and the poetics of error and emptiness created by Kiwa. What happens when the perfect message is interrupted – not only technically, but also on an existential level? Could a new code emerge between broken data streams, new signals that the person from the past cannot understand – and perhaps our own perceptions aren’t ready for it yet, either? The digital space around artists’ creations is like a landscape, the vulnerable parts and possibilities of which are revealed by glitches and allowed to be explored from a new angle.
The sound frequencies created by Kiwa and artificial intelligence bring to life the ancient worm patterns of Estonia with an unknown language of the future. The books fill with the meaning of emptiness and nothingness; the mirrors reflect something that cannot be seen with the naked eye – the hidden essence of oneself. In Kiwa’s work, there is nothing wrong that needs to be fixed – the glitch itself is information. Error is a feature.
According to Claude Shannon, the founder of information theory, information is only those messages whose performance cannot be predicted by the receiver. The old hard drive of Toomas Volkmann opened out as unexpected foci on a technological surgery table. The breakage of images and the collision of bit pieces have brought together strange layers. If you could see what I hear, the creaking and intermittent echo of the citizens living reverberates from the hard drive. Technological error can become an uncontrollable creature, whose temper decides which messages about us will exist today and forever. While the technological goblin that intervened in Volkmann’s photographs has produced a lush, glitched foam of noise, Kiwa’s work is dominated by a search for emptiness and nothingness, a striving for an unfoamed whole.
Between the beats of MIЯЯOЯERROR, a techno-tonal remix of "Hell" plays, glitter flashes, and a brightened spirit emerges in the reflection of the mirror. Different sounds meet, and the party is just beginning.
Curated by Bianka Soe
Design by Tuuli Aule
Thank you to Marleen Suvi, Mihkel Soe, Daniel Vaarik
The exhibition is supported by the Cultural Endowment of Estonia, Põhjala Brewery.
DJ Lotte Jürjendal and DJ Court Rat will play music at the exhibition opening