schnellebuntebilder (DE) / Knoth & Renner (DE)
Berit Gilma (AT/DE, Elevate Arts)
Liquid Truth is dedicated to an ancient saying that considers truth to be a ‘daughter of time’. In the form of a generative data sculpture that intercepts Twitter hashtags related to #fake and #truth in real time, this idea is brought into the hyper-accelerated present – and exhibited on the Graz clock tower. In reference to the historical extension of the clock face, the clock tower also gets a second hand for this project. It becomes a protagonist in its own right, tweeting truth statistics at every stroke of the clock at @Uhrturm_Graz.
The boundaries between digital and physical space are dissolved – the sculpture lives on beyond the festival: as a digital data sculpture on the internet, it continues to feed on real-time data. Constantly changing, it thus reflects the discourse on truth into digital infinity.
Liquid Truth is part of the Elevate art programme and will be on display from 27 February to 3 March 2019 on the Graz clock tower and at liquidtruth.at.
Elevate Festival 2019: TRUTH elevate.at · schnellebuntebilder.de · knoth-renner.com
