The Butterfly Effect

The Coordinates Of The Moment Before Discovery

WORK DATA

Category:
EVENT (collection)
Type:
conference / exhibition / performance / presentation / screening
Creation Date:
1996-01-22 - 1996-01-23
Description:
Fundamental to chaos theory is the phenomenon of sensitive dependence on initial conditions,commonly referred to as the Butterfly Effect.We have no way of knowing what effect technological media will have on the future of contemporary art. Today's situation is just as unpredictable as that of the last century, prior to the new discovery of film, television, holography and the computer. If, while examining the routes to our present we realize what the original idea or invention meant (or could have meant) at the time, keeping in mind even aspects which were later forgotten, then we may be able to "see into the future". Applying this method, we can perceive the new in the old, recognizing the original richness of that which later became tradition. We can see the old in the new, too, with its transience and the boredom of its fashionability.

More Information

Original Title (Hungarian):
A Pillangó-hatás
Original Subtitle:
A felfedezés előtti pillanat koordinátái
Location:
Budapest, Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle
Works in this Collection:
 
STILL TITLE PERSON TYPE CREATION DATE
still The Butterfly Effect C3 Center for Culture & Communication Foundation,
Műcsarnok
catalogue
1998
still The Butterfly Effect - Current Coordinates exhibition
1996-01-20 - 1996-02-25
still The Butterfly Effect - Staged Moments concert,
performance,
presentation
1996-01-20 - 1996-02-25
still The Butterfly Effect - The Moment Before Discovery conference
1996-01-22 - 1996-01-23