The New, the Old and the Media of the Future

The New, the Old and the Media of the FutureMedia art curator and critic Ida Hir_enfelder writes about Antoine Schmitts project Time Slip and his main past and recent works. Time Slip is a LED news ticker operating in real time: a computer software transcribes official online news released by news agencies, changing the past tense to the future tense. In doing this, it constructs an ambiguous relation between the present, the past and the potential by displaying a continuous streaming of new

Media art curator and critic Ida Hir_enfelder writes about Antoine SchmittÕs project Time Slip and his main past and recent works.
Time Slip is a LED news ticker operating in real time: a computer software transcribes official online news released by news agencies, changing the past tense to the future tense. In doing this, it constructs an ambiguous relation between the present, the past and the potential by displaying a continuous streaming of ÒnewÓ news. Time Slip raises an issue that is central in Antoine SchmittÕs work, i.e. the relation between cause, effect, randomness and free will: reading news about facts that have already happened disallows the audienceÕs ability to be active about them; whereas, oppositely, reading news about the future raises anxiety and shows how the mass media proceed to produce submissive citizens, as opposed to informing them.