'Formats as Content'
In order to separate content from format, I recontextualize
- the Olivetti Underwood Factory by Louis Kahn,
- the Mnemosyne Atlas by Aby Warburg,
- and the History of the Image in the Green Room.
Recon Project
For the Recon project to launch the contents must be placed and rearranged for the performance. The paper images are detached from their historical content unless they speak about the production of formats. The only spatial characteristics of this kind of ''showroom'' can be read, in this instance, through the organizational structure of the image formats.
Some images, such as the Google Books Scanning Machine, represent the 'process of translation through reformatting'. These images distinguish themselves as the core ideas of the project.
Similar to the ways in which the painters have inserted their presence within their paintings (Jan van Eyck's The Arnolfini Marriage, 1434; Jan Vermeer's The Music Lesson, c. 1662-1664), this image can speak about the relationship inside and outside of itself.
Rather than introducing or deducing any coherent classification system from a chaos of material objects and their ideological associations, a new question is addressed:
How can our repertory of knowledge change once content is separated from format?