Anyone remembers The Infinite Talk at The Ruins of Art Berlin (1988-1992)?

Shoonay · 20 April 2008, 18:16

I remember reading in an old paper mag (Amiga Magazyn 1/92, september) about a very cool experiment, at The Ruins of Art Berlin "a private place where the material and unmaterialised art meet" that started in 1988.
Two people, Wolf Kahlen and Wojciech Bruszewski created an "happening characterised as an philosophical discussion" using an Amiga.
"Garry and Paula talk about infinity. They'll discuss that all the time, day and night, for a whole year, and - if possible - infinitely. All this will be transmited and could be heard using a simple radio reciever at UHF 97,2MHz."
"The software, as I requested, was written by Marek Frąckowiak. There's translator.library in the Amiga system that interpretes text as human speech."
"The radiostation still works (september of 1992) which makes it exactly 4 years old."

Here's the scan:

Shoonay · 22 April 2008, 10:56

What? Nobody from Germany that remembers this?
Retro-Nerd? No photos of the site?

I'm vewy vewy disappointed in you guys...

Retro-Nerd · 22 April 2008, 17:36

Sorry Shoonay, never heard about this experiment.

But i hope these guys have real jobs now!!!

Shoonay · 22 April 2008, 17:45

Yeah, and I hope they're not "like that" anymore, like in the above picture...

Don't know about Wolf, but prof. Bruszewski sure is busy.

Anyways, here's another thought: Since our polish Amiga Magazyn was mostly a reprinted/translated version of the german Amiga Magazin in the early years, was there any info in those?

20 April 2008, 18:16	#1
Shoonay Global Caturator Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Porando Age: 42 Posts: 6,074	Anyone remembers The Infinite Talk at The Ruins of Art Berlin (1988-1992)? I remember reading in an old paper mag (Amiga Magazyn 1/92, september) about a very cool experiment, at The Ruins of Art Berlin "a private place where the material and unmaterialised art meet" that started in 1988. Two people, Wolf Kahlen and Wojciech Bruszewski created an "happening characterised as an philosophical discussion" using an Amiga. "Garry and Paula talk about infinity. They'll discuss that all the time, day and night, for a whole year, and - if possible - infinitely. All this will be transmited and could be heard using a simple radio reciever at UHF 97,2MHz." "The software, as I requested, was written by Marek Frąckowiak. There's translator.library in the Amiga system that interpretes text as human speech." "The radiostation still works (september of 1992) which makes it exactly 4 years old." Here's the scan: Last edited by Shoonay; 22 April 2008 at 14:29.

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22 April 2008, 10:56	#2
Shoonay Global Caturator Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Porando Age: 42 Posts: 6,074	What? Nobody from Germany that remembers this? Retro-Nerd? No photos of the site? I'm vewy vewy disappointed in you guys...

22 April 2008, 17:36	#3
Retro-Nerd Missile Command Champion Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Germany Age: 51 Posts: 12,388	Sorry Shoonay, never heard about this experiment. But i hope these guys have real jobs now!!!

22 April 2008, 17:45	#4
Shoonay Global Caturator Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Porando Age: 42 Posts: 6,074	Yeah, and I hope they're not "like that" anymore, like in the above picture... Don't know about Wolf, but prof. Bruszewski sure is busy. Anyways, here's another thought: Since our polish Amiga Magazyn was mostly a reprinted/translated version of the german Amiga Magazin in the early years, was there any info in those?

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