Swiftly and silently doing its work - Miriam Hamann (AT)
Swiftly and silently doing its work is a light installation that deals with the measurability and transmission of time. It refers to the radio technology that permanently sends time signals and synchronizes many of our clocks - a technology that significantly influences and systematizes our reality, but is hardly consciously perceived. The title-giving sentence visualized as neon letters refers to a quote from 1898, in which the vision of controlling time by radio was first formulated as radio technology was being developed. While the technical prerequisites for this did not exist until about a hundred years later, since then the technology of wireless communication has developed at a rapid pace. With its current omnipresence wireless communication’s technology has become an expression of the standardization of our everyday life. The location of the light installation below a motorway bridge refers to this acceleration and at the same time juxtaposes the silence taken up in the quote.
Miriam Hamann lives and works in Vienna. In the field of tension between installation and sculptural works, the focus of her artistic engagement is on the question of how our reality is structured.