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Within the realm of consumer electronics made in Hong Kong the copper tracks of the microchips lead in a different direction. In the direction of incomprehensible space.
Be it in the sphere of communism or capitalism, mythology or microelectronics, the Chinese characters appear in the same form as they were developed by their creators more than three thousand years ago: conductive brush strokes.
Thus, the lines of the steirischer herbst logo are logically copper tracks on a printed circuit designed on the basis of the Chinese characters for MADE IN HONG KONG. As an integrated circuit the logo is both function and graphic element.
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MADE IN HONG KONG is a project extending beyond the time scope of steirischer herbst 95, a project dealing with microelectronics and the contingent production chains and applications.
A contribution to contemporary electronic logo-culture.
A search for aesthetic traces in the socio-political sphere.
The starting point of MADE IN HONG KONG is the singing of Cantonese women workers digitally stored on a sampling microchip. Such microchips are tested in this way before being employed in talking dolls, telephone systems or Dictaphones.
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ìThe heart of our MIDATÆ system is a microchip that stores and protects data. Data and energy transfer is carried out without contact via an inductive coupling in combination with powerful digital communication technologies.î *)
In the sculpture park of Katzow in the former GDR, in the Chinese restaurant ASIA in Graz, and in the Hong Kong underground the logo is a visible, functional component of a read/write unit being both transmitter and receiver in the data flow between Hong Kong-Graz-Katzow.
The 214 MIDAT microchips, installed in shoes, rice bowls/chopsticks, and clock casings, are pulse generators of everyday electronic contact.
214 users = 214 radicals **)
(ìfor the users this means: maximum reliability thanks to the use of digital technology, and the complete encapsulation of the data medium, in principle there are no more causes of failure or interference such as dirt, dust, moisture, demagnetisation, ageing, wear, corrosion, material tolerances etc.! In other words: the user can rely on his medium.î*)
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ì... At this moment we are moving through our own programme. We are flying through the waves transmitted by us. We are in the middle of our own wave range. We are both transmitter and receiver. We are experiencing the stage of identity with our own work. We are ourselves part of our electromagnetic work of art.
In 1997 Hong Kong is scheduled to return to China its freedom borrowed for 99 years. In 1997 construction on the first permanently habitable space station is to be commenced in orbit. Both events will meet up in the microchip this text has been recorded on.î
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Live insert from the Boeing 747/Lufthansa on its flight to Hong Kong. Duration: 657.3 km.
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Richard Watts
Richard Watts
