"THE WATCH-TOWERS OF PEACE"
An Art Installation By Fred Forrest (FR)
May 28th - 4th June 1993
Installation telephone Numbers:
0043 3453 5411
0043 3453 5412
0043 3453 5413
TO SEND YOUR MESSAGES OF PEACE TO FORMER YUGOSLAVIA FROM ACROSS THE
BORDER IN AUSTRIA.
RING THESE NUMBERS FROM EVERY CORNER OF YOUR PLANET TO COVER THE LAND OF
WAR WITH SLOGANS OF PEACE.
DISSEMINATE YOUR ENERGIES IN REAL TIME THROUGH POSITIVE WAVES.
We would like to draw your attention to an installation that will be
realised by the artist Fred Forrest within the framework of the European
Month of Culture in Graez. The installation will incorporate the
general theme "Entegenzte Grenzen" (Dismissed Borders) and function as
leading project. It will open in April and can already be considered as
extraordinary and exemplary.
The technological communication media Fred Forrest is going to install
at the Slovenian border will be placed in such a way that they will look
in the direction of the former Yugoslavian territory and are called
"OBSERVATION TOWERS FOR PEACE".
These technological communication media will consist of five sound
amplifiers connected to computers and the INTERNATIONAL TELEPHONE
NETWORK. The metal structures designed to carry these strong amplifiers
will be erected in Ehrenhausen, directly at the Austrian-Slovenian
border. Through these amplifiers, peace messages are to be emitted in
real-time mode. These peace messages will be transmitted to the
amplifiers via telephone from the whole world over.
A computer will be used to transform the messages via synthesizer into
one collective sound signal. The modulation of this whistling sound
will change in accordance with both the number of incoming phone calls
and the distance from which they come.
There is no doubt that the interaction of Fred Forrest's project and its
symbolic dimension in view of the present geopolitical situation make
the installation a first class media event and emphasize the meaning of
our modern society's new forms of communication.
For more information, please write to:
Fred Forrest
Territoire Du MZ,
60540 Anserville,
France
Tel 44 08 43 05
Fax 44 08 59 67
PLEASE DISTRIBUTE THIS MESSAGE FREELY
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An Art Installation By Fred Forrest (FR)
May 28th - 4th June 1993
Installation telephone Numbers:
0043 3453 5411
0043 3453 5412
0043 3453 5413
TO SEND YOUR MESSAGES OF PEACE TO FORMER YUGOSLAVIA FROM ACROSS THE
BORDER IN AUSTRIA.
RING THESE NUMBERS FROM EVERY CORNER OF YOUR PLANET TO COVER THE LAND OF
WAR WITH SLOGANS OF PEACE.
DISSEMINATE YOUR ENERGIES IN REAL TIME THROUGH POSITIVE WAVES.
We would like to draw your attention to an installation that will be
realised by the artist Fred Forrest within the framework of the European
Month of Culture in Graez. The installation will incorporate the
general theme "Entegenzte Grenzen" (Dismissed Borders) and function as
leading project. It will open in April and can already be considered as
extraordinary and exemplary.
The technological communication media Fred Forrest is going to install
at the Slovenian border will be placed in such a way that they will look
in the direction of the former Yugoslavian territory and are called
"OBSERVATION TOWERS FOR PEACE".
These technological communication media will consist of five sound
amplifiers connected to computers and the INTERNATIONAL TELEPHONE
NETWORK. The metal structures designed to carry these strong amplifiers
will be erected in Ehrenhausen, directly at the Austrian-Slovenian
border. Through these amplifiers, peace messages are to be emitted in
real-time mode. These peace messages will be transmitted to the
amplifiers via telephone from the whole world over.
A computer will be used to transform the messages via synthesizer into
one collective sound signal. The modulation of this whistling sound
will change in accordance with both the number of incoming phone calls
and the distance from which they come.
There is no doubt that the interaction of Fred Forrest's project and its
symbolic dimension in view of the present geopolitical situation make
the installation a first class media event and emphasize the meaning of
our modern society's new forms of communication.
For more information, please write to:
Fred Forrest
Territoire Du MZ,
60540 Anserville,
France
Tel 44 08 43 05
Fax 44 08 59 67
PLEASE DISTRIBUTE THIS MESSAGE FREELY
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