{"id":14804,"title":"Carrel 2 (Collosus)","dimensions":"240 x 201 x 62 cm","date_begin":"2014-01-01","material":"wooden cabinet on wheels","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":58,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Courtesy of the artist and Zeno X Gallery","cached_tag_list":"AMVK","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"20140000O","stream_count_app":15,"permalink":"carrel-2-collosus","description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"category":{"en":"Installation","nl":"Installatie","fr":"Installation"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/033/540/large/AMVK2014_16b.jpg?1478876950","poster_credits":"(c)image: AMVK","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026quot;A carrel is a kind of separated cupboard that also serves as a database \u0026ndash; it\u0026rsquo;s a moving study table. In the Middle Ages, carrels were found in monastic libraries, where monks used them to isolate themselves from the environment\u0026#39;s noise.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nThe first carrel I made for a crematorium, the next three were for an exhibition at Zeno X Gallery. They were shown together with large PVC collages, based on quotations from the mystic Marguerite Porete and on Karol Szymanowski\u0026rsquo;s composing manner. Each of the carrels stands for a step in the development of data processing machines: they are computers, in other words.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nTheir titles are: Enigma, Colossus, Connection Machine and Coromandel Disturbed 1 and 2. The first was an encoding machine, the second a decoding machine, and the third was launched as a revolutionary idea to put the processing system (the processor) precisely where the information is stored: in the memory. This way, the memory becomes the processor in the computer. I drew a parallel to the stages of a human life.\u0026quot;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u0026minus; AMVK\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u0026quot;Een carrel is een soort opzichzelfstaande kast die ook dienst doet als een databank, het is een rijdende studeertafel. In de middeleeuwen vond men carrels in de kloosterbibliotheken, monniken gebruikten ze om zich van het lawaai van de omgeving te kunnen afzonderen.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nDe eerste carrel maakte ik voor een crematorium, de volgende 3 waren voor een tentoonstelling bij Zeno X Gallery. Ze werden getoond samen met grote pvc-collages, gebaseerd op citaten van de mystica Marguerite Porete en de componeerwijze van Karol Szymanowski. Elk van de carrels staat voor een stap in de ontwikkeling van dataverwerkingsmachines. Computers, met andere woorden.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u003cbr /\u003e\r\nHun namen zijn \u003cem\u003eEnigma\u003c/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eColossus,\u003c/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eConnection Machine\u003c/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCoromandel, Disturbed \u003c/em\u003e1 en 2. De eerste was een coderingsmachine, de tweede decoderingsmachine, en met de derde werd als revolutionair idee gelanceerd om het verwerkingssysteem (de processor) te stoppen waar de informatie wordt opgeslagen, in het geheugen. Zo wordt het geheugen in de computer de processor. Ik trok een parallel naar de stadia in een mensenleven.\u0026quot;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u0026minus; AMVK\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u0026quot;Un Carrel (ou box ou cubicule) est une sorte d\u0026rsquo;armoire autonome, de box qui fait aussi office de banque de donn\u0026eacute;es\u0026nbsp;; il s\u0026rsquo;agit de tables d\u0026rsquo;\u0026eacute;tude sur roulette. Au Moyen-\u0026acirc;ge, on les trouvait dans les biblioth\u0026egrave;ques de monast\u0026egrave;res afin de pouvoir s\u0026rsquo;isoler du bruit environnant.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Le premier carrel que j\u0026rsquo;ai cr\u0026eacute;\u0026eacute; \u0026eacute;tait destin\u0026eacute; \u0026agrave; un cr\u0026eacute;matorium, les trois suivants ont \u0026eacute;t\u0026eacute; r\u0026eacute;alis\u0026eacute;s pour une exposition \u0026agrave; la galerie Zeno X. Ils ont \u0026eacute;t\u0026eacute; expos\u0026eacute;s avec de grands collages sur PVC, inspir\u0026eacute;s de citations de la mystique Marguerite Porete et du mode de composition de Karol Szymanowski.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Chacun des carrels symbolise une \u0026eacute;tape de l\u0026rsquo;\u0026eacute;volution des machines de traitement de donn\u0026eacute;es, en d\u0026rsquo;autres mots, des ordinateurs.\u003cbr /\u003e\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Leurs noms sont Enigma, Colossus, The Connection Machine, Coromandel Disturbed\u0026nbsp;1 et 2. La premi\u0026egrave;re \u0026eacute;tait un cryptographe, la deuxi\u0026egrave;me un d\u0026eacute;codeur et avec la troisi\u0026egrave;me, on a lanc\u0026eacute; l\u0026rsquo;id\u0026eacute;e r\u0026eacute;volutionnaire d\u0026rsquo;introduire le syst\u0026egrave;me de traitement de l\u0026rsquo;information (le processeur) l\u0026agrave; o\u0026ugrave; celle-ci est sauvegard\u0026eacute;e, \u0026agrave; savoir dans la m\u0026eacute;moire. Ainsi, la m\u0026eacute;moire devient le processeur de l\u0026rsquo;ordinateur. J\u0026rsquo;ai \u0026eacute;tabli un parall\u0026egrave;le avec les phases d\u0026rsquo;une vie humaine.\u0026quot;\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u0026minus; AMVK\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":1472,"name":"Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven / AMVK","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}