HANS-CHRISTIAN DANY (artist and writer) Faster than the Sun

8 years ago
HANS-CHRISTIAN DANY (artist and writer)

Faster than the Sun

ABSTRACT: For a while I often went to the casino. While gambling and watching the circulation of the game, I realised: again and again an unknown future ist proposed, that never turns into reality. An machine produces random numbers that are unpredictable, but allways the same setting comes again into place. I loose my money. The situation is ultrastable since threehundred years. This will lead me to the question, if the fictions of prediction could be the reason, for a reality that nearly stands still, where future stopped to happen. (Excerpt from Faster Than The Sun, a novel by Hans-Christian Dany, Edition Nautilus, 2015)

Hans-Christian Dany will talk about gambling and draw a line from the models of early cybernetics to an analysis of the situation now: a society that is very slow and nearly doesn´t move anymore, because it constantly produces mathematical fictions of the future, that prevent a real future from coming into place. He will then look at some examples from art, that are more open to an unknown and non-human controlled future.

BIOGRAPHY: Hans-Christian Dany is an artist on holidays from what he should do. He sometimes writes.

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