Marko Timlin. BITS AND BYTES exhibition, 2023-2024. RIXC Gallery. Photo: Juris Rozenbergs
The artist Marko Timlin exhibited the sound installation BITS AND BYTES at the solo exhibition and developed the SENSOR_SOUND_MACHINE instrument performed at the concert at RIXC Gallery.
Marko Timlin creates artworks that link science with art, technology with nature and the past with the present. His artistic work centers on the development of kinetic sound installations and performances with self-made sound machines.
His approach is part of a broader perspective of a peaceful coexistence between the human and the machine. With his artistic inventions he proves that both can work together to create experiences that transcend them.
In the recently published anthology covering Finnish media art´s last century (“Suomalaisen mediataiteen ensimmäinen vuosisata”) Timlin is named as a successor of inventive genius Erkki Kurenniemi.
Timlin’s works have been exhibited and performed world-wide including at Whitebox New York (USA), Sight & Sound Festival Montréal (CA), Fylkingen Stockholm (SE), Kiasma Helsinki (FI), EOF gallery Paris (FR), E:vent gallery London (UK), Piksel Festival (NO) and Neues Museum Nürnberg (DE).
BITS AND BYTES. Exhibition at the RIXC Gallery, 2023–2024
BITS AND BYTES is a kinetic sound installation consisting of 104 recycled floppy disk drives. By combining obsolete technology of the 1980s and 1990s with the technological means and aesthetics of the 21st century, completely new sonorous universes arise which sing with 104 different machine voices.
BITS AND BYTES combines the everyday, the mechanical, but also the broken, discarded, the machine scrap with highly complex computer controls and introduces us to an unknown sound world. It resembles a living organism that sings with 104 different machine voices inviting visitors to immerse themselves in complex spatial sound phenomena that move around them.
BITS AND BYTES aims to reveal the hidden poetry of the machine world by singing songs beyond humankind.
PHOTO ALBUM >>>> BITS AND BYTES Exhibition Opening. Photos: Juris Rozenbergs
Marko Timlin. BITS AND BYTES exhibition, 2023-2024. RIXC Gallery. Photo: Juris Rozenbergs
SENSOR_SOUND_MACHINE. Performance at the RIXC Gallery, 2023
The SENSOR_SOUND_MACHINE performance featured the demonstration of the sensor-based digital instrument for live performances and concerts developed during the residency. This instrument connects the physical world with the digital world. A combination of ultra-sonic sensors, solar panels, infrared sensors and microcontrollers receives information from the physical world and transmits this data to a computer where it is used to generate and control digital audio feedbacks. This instrument offers listeners a new kind of digital sound aesthetic and explores the question ”how purely digital music” can sound like.
PHOTO ALBUM >>>> SENSOR_SOUND_MACHINE Concert. Photos: Lelde Gūtmane
Marko Timlin. SENSOR_SOUND_MACHINE concert, 2023. RIXC Gallery. Photo: Lelde Gūtmane
ABOUT THE RESIDENCY PROGRAM
RIXC Art, Science & Techno-Ecologies Residency program featuring three Art, Science and Techno-Ecologies residencies, two-month each, for Baltic and Nordic artists took place at RIXC in Riga, Latvia, during the time period from February 1, 2023 until March 31, 2024, supported by Nordic Culture Point.
The Residency Program took place for Baltic and Nordic artists who work on the edge of art, science and techno-ecologies, exploring the complex relations between the human, nature and digital technologies, and focusing on new concepts such as “naturecultures”, “sensing environments”, “living technologies”, “terrestrial coexistence”, “naturally / artificial intelligences”, which recently have been re-examined at the heart of our society.
RIXC Center for New Media Culture has received mobility funding from the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture to establish RIXC Art Science Residencies.
