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Non-Finite Clause (NFC)

2021–2023 (AT / FI)
interactive installation
digital poetry, moving images, ceramics, NFC tags, sensors
media arheology, proximity, collective memory

belongs to NFC series:
Main Bulla: 1 x clay sculpture with sensors and OLED screen, approx. 25 cm
Tokens: growing amount x clay objects with NFC tags, approx. 10 cm
Images: 5 x web-based images







Non-Finite Clause (NFC) is an installation inspired by trading, intimacy and circulative memory. The covered clay objects carry inside digital poetry in different formats.

Each object has a hidden NFC tag that can be scanned with any mobile phone that has an NFC reader. A web page opens on the device presenting custom poetry pop-ups and slow digitally produced videos with immersive audio.





The main bulla also has on the surface an OLED-screen which display poems by the sensors triggered around the body. The sensors activate in 1–5 cm intimate distance, turns off when touching.

NFC technology was developed for faster, contactless payments. Bulla is an ancient envelope made out of clay, developed to keep recordings of trade in an efficient way. Bullae hold tokens inside to memorise things, often the content being imprinted also on the surface. These postinternet bullae transfer only poetry by proximity.

The work consists of clay objects, NFC tags, distance interrupter sensors, printed images, webpages, moving images and poetry. They are made with decoupage, JavaScript, Processing, Pure Data, Arduino, video blending and hydrophone recordings.


Statement

Non-Finite Clause (NFC) questions the need for more efficient productivity, eternal economical growth with ecological and social cost. It is practice to rebuild connection by intimacy, not by trade. The content explores circulative memory, for example in themes of language born in the body, gender division, and desire for unknown. It is hard to define if these messages are sent in the past or future.


Exhibitions