Fitton, Ben (2019) Wir entscheiden, wo die Reise hingeht. Der Mensch muss dabei immer im Mittelpunkt stehen, oder so was [We decide where the journey goes. The human being must always be the focus of attention, or something]. [Art/Design Item]
Wir entscheiden, wo die Reise hin ...
| Wir entscheiden, wo die Reise hin ...
| Wir entscheiden, wo die Reise hin ...
|
| Type of Research: | Art/Design Item | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creators: | Fitton, Ben | ||||||
| Description: | Contribution to the group exhibition The Storm is Blowing from Paradise, Loft Acht, Vienna, 2019. A three-letter array of striplights mounted on a steel structure interrupts the windows of a gallery, and is home to a seemingly autonomous but distracted decoy owl. From the street the striplight arrays spell out phrases constructed entirely of words whose length is a multiple of three letters, prioritising formal exigency over linguistic coherence. Attempts have been made to re-translate (the Austrian Infrastructure Minister) Jörg Leichtfried's assertion of the primacy of human agency in governmental AI policy to fit the tripartite syntax, mangling its specificity. wir begrenzen den Umfang der Wanderung und we limit the scope of the journey and The decoy owl which sits perched on a striplight at one end of the steel structure has been given just enough sensory response as to appear to be in possession of some form of autonomy. It generally turns its head towards any approaching visitor, but its movements are unpredictable; it appears distracted and cannot be interacted with in any coherent way. At rest it appears to stare towards a crude bird-shaped company logo on a window across the street. Other artists in the exhibition: Co-Curators: Pawel Mendrek and Ewa Zasada |
||||||
| Other Contributors: |
|
||||||
| Keywords/subjects not otherwise listed: | Artificial Intelligence | ||||||
| Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > Chelsea College of Arts | ||||||
| Date: | 2019 | ||||||
| Funders: | Tschechisches Zentrum Wien, Polnisches Institut Wien | ||||||
| Related Websites: | https://www.loft8.at/ausstellung/the-storm-is-blowing-from-paradise/, https://www.benfitton.info/projects/entscheiden.html | ||||||
| Related Websites: | |||||||
| Locations / Venues: | Location From Date To Date Loft 8 Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst
Radetzkystraße 4, 1030 Wien 6 November 2019 21 December 2019 |
||||||
| Material/Media: | Fluorescent striplights, steel, electronic control gear, decoy owl | ||||||
| Measurements or Duration of item: | Various | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 02 Jul 2026 10:45 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 02 Jul 2026 10:45 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 27222 | ||||||
| URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/27222 | ||||||
| Licences: |
Repository Staff Only: item control page | University Staff: Request a correction

Tools
Tools