“(Remote) Mind - The Strangers are still me"
Georg Muehleck / Barbara Rauch
with music by Karin Krog

georg@mybrain.s.bawue.de
b.rauch@camb.linst.ac.uk

A DVD installation in a room with 2 projectors and audio partsRemote

Mind is a collaborative project of Georg Muehleck and Barbara Rauch.
Georg Muehleck has a long interest into memory and the mind. He has been
researching within digital technology since the late Eighties. One of his
main fields are Cellular Automata Simulations and Artificial Intelligence.
Within that ground he has been looking into visual representations of how
memory could be seen or might be understood.

Personality and identity in the digital age on one side, the dreaming
brain, imagination and experience on the other, stand in parallel and
opposition of Barbara Rauchs' work. Her research looks into how being
online in the WWW, particularly MUD and MOOs and dreams, can be possibly
compared, by looking into experience and imagination.

“(Remote) Mind - The Strangers are still me" aims to fuse these personal
interests into a collaborative work of art, which leaves enough space for
the viewer to find himself/herself in it. Personality and identity is seen
on the background of the age of digital reproduction/manipulation and the
central issue in today's science: genetic modifications.

Karin Krogs' music came in at the moment when both artists started to look
at a narrative, a storyboard which could carry these thoughts along. It
fitted in so well, and the common interest in what we are, and what we
think we are, had become the central issue in this video installation. The
piece is split into two synchronized screens facing each other, giving the
viewer chances to break the linear structure of following one screen; thus
adding his/her head/mind into the piece.

The collaborative way of working once more is highlighted by the research of
Prof. Peter Hammond and Tim Hutton. Both scientists worked together with
the artists on “(Remote) Mind - The Strangers are still me" at UCL. Peter
Hammond supervising scientifique aspects and Tim Hutton writing code for
making things come true, which otherwise could never have been visualized.
A 3D scanner was used at Eastman Dental Institute for Oral Health Care
Sciences University College London for capturing face data. Programmed
average heads were rendered by using the database of the Institute. The
faces you see, do not exist like this for real (...what is real?) The data
of the face scans has just been used like a surface, modelled onto someone
else's scull (the artists' sculls).

short lo-res extract:Quicktime,sorenson, 4.9Mb