Words emit colors. Shapes make noise. Real time is speeded up, slowed down and processed to synthesize a dynamic, disorienting landscape. Mesmerizing, sometimes synchronic, views of clear rivers and verdant forests are interrupted by moving pictures of a frantic Midtown Atlanta construction site. White digits are set against a deep blue backdrop while binary equations scroll by.
Rockets arch through the sky in a gray-scale universe.
Retro gives way to modern, then loops back. A multi-channeled sonic track devised by Andrew Deutsch works like an abstract mnemonic device. The bitmapped aural encounter is all about communication systems, explains Deutsch, who teaches at the Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University in New York. The French philosophers' book by the same title is divided into plateaus instead of chapters. Like their complex, multi-leveled writing, Hornbacher's media is a network of ideas about philosophy, psychology, science fiction, society, music and art.