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Interactive 3D computer animation, Kirsten Geisler, 1999<\/p>\n
A young woman watches the visitors and begins to count.<\/p>\n
It becomes quickly apparent that it is not an image of a living person, but that she is virtual; instead of flesh and blood there are bites and bytes. The counting figure is a product of mathematics herself. She uses her origin as the basis for communication with her environment and in doing so, she reduces the human spectator to an anonymous number. On the one hand the visitor looses his name and in turn identity, on the other hand he becomes part of the numerical masses. We are forced to ask the question: are names and identity numbers the same or simply an indication for an individual? The accumulation of letters are replaced by a series of numbers.<\/p>\n
In “Counting” the conflict between individual minds and the community is sometimes defused by the beauty while she calls out at random: “1234 connect to 5678”. Fate connects people, partner selection by computer.<\/p>\n
In many cultures numbers are the origin of all things and creatures; they are the harmony that underlies the world\u2019s structure. Numbers specify quantities, however, they also express a symbolic quality. Not only appropriate for a seemingly objective description of time measurement in minutes, hours, days, or for the determination of spatial distances in metres or miles, but also as the expression of emotional values. 300 people killed in a plane crash evokes more emotions as three victims in everyday traffic. What happens close by has more impact than what happens somewhere far away. The past fades, something long sustained becomes normal. In both cases a negative correlation with regard to emotional values arises.<\/p>\n
The individual emotional factor ci is the measure for emotional intensity, which is evoked in the individual by an event. “Counting\u2019 is a piece of work about our relation to numbers, mathematics, the universe and therefore to ourselves.<\/p>\n
With special thanks to RMH, agency for new media, Cologne<\/p>\n
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