Click more for a rough documentation film about the exhibition at “born digital? – art, life, games and technology” – an exhibition of interactive media art in the “Cees Braakman Zaal”, Toonkamer (Rotsoord 3), Utrecht. 8th November 2009. Culturele Zondagen, Utrecht (Niemandsland, Berlin meets Utrecht)

Akitoshi Honda & Shintaro Miyazaki
– 2nd Order Diatoms (2009, Berlin)

“2nd Order Diatoms” senses the rhythm of your mobile electronic gadgets, which you use in your daily life. Invisible and unhearable electromagnetic waves produced by the little machines get converted to sound and light. It is like listening to the “radio” of our mobile gadgets. A not intended radio. These invisible electromagnetic waves show us that there is no “NIEMANDSLAND”. As an empty space NIEMANDSLAND seems to be – at the first sight – uninhabited, but actually is very inhabited and occupied by different sorts of electromagnetic waves.

“2nd Order Diatoms” is also a laser-installation, which creates circular patterns similar to some sort of diatoms, which are one of the oldest life forms of our earth. As artists we ask ourself: “How could LIFE FORM be synthesized?” Our answer: In the ancient ocean life form has began. In the ancient ocean there were many rhythms and frequencies, such as the waves of the ocean, vulcano’s furies and never ending thunders. They mixed each other and maybe effected to the forming of a new life form. We use the frequencies and rhythms of mobile phones to try to form new life forms. We call them “2nd Order Diatoms”.

(Copyright by Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM), Bremen)