Tyyne Claudia Pollmann

Retrieving, processing, tracking and tracing have evolved into standard actions performed with any available data, including their instant translation into images, thus transforming, modifying and adjusting them for the visualized results. Data are treated as fragments; aspects, parameters, details of complex actions and behavior, which are isolated, reduced, idealized and finally presented for further investigation. The results apparently show a smooth and direct translatability.

All three works are intended as an extension of the parameters of the respective media and as an interaction with them. They open up real and fictional time-spaces, and allow not only new perspectives and experiences but also innovative ways of working and cooperating.  For my work, an examination of the complex, often subtle and obscure interpenetration of problem positions is now unthinkable without a transdisciplinary approach and a corresponding working practice. This publication is thus a product of multidimensional collaborations.

tracelation underscores the indispensable action of translation within the performance of tracing, which results in histories of action, movement, performance as time-specific changes of particles: big data. Derivation answers derivation, algorithm feeds algorithm, analysis of derived data, constantly re-translated, shaping reality: a chain of tracelations. leave a trace, installed in the Charite CrossOver Institute Berlin Mitte since 2013, tracelates raw data into images and sends the trajectories back to their originators. The enigma is not the machine: it is people’s actions and reactions. The image output of these interactions can be viewed on site and online via live stream. Along with its further tracelations and subtexts by Miya Yoshida, Warren Neidich, Ralf Reulke, Wolfram Liebermeister, Dominik Rueß, Knut Ebeling, Mariapaola Gritti and Alan N. Shapiro it is the core of this publication.