Knowbotic Research
Knowbotic Research is a German-Swiss electronic art group, established in 1991. Its members are Yvonne Wilhelm, Christian Hübler and Alexander Tuchacek.
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Knowbotic Research, KR, (Yvonne Wilhelm, Christian Huebler, Alexander Tuchacek) formed in 1991, is based in Zurich/Switzerland. The art group has been experimenting with urbanity, construction of knowledge and political representations in mediatised public spheres.
The transformation of the public sphere is a continuous process that is intimately linked not only to the development of media technologies, but also to the ways in which different agents act in the difference of their physical and symbolic contexts. Most recently KR have been investigating the construction of meaning and communication in a series of playfully 'test cases' that raise important questions about the constitution of subjectivity under the conditions of an information society.
While the earlier, network-based projects had concentrated on structures important to virtual networks, the recent test cases emphasise the aspect of transcoding in real spaces. By 'transcoding', Knowbotic Research mean the translation of abstract social and political facts and conditions which are removed from the classical public sphere, into situations that can temporarily be observed and negotiated. The testcases thus become instruments that can be deployed in manifold ways. They embody a material, almost sculptural translation, both experimenting with and disrupting their conceptual contexts. As explorative oscillations between materiality and mediality they often (re)enact symbolic representations in local and translocal interchanges.