GIVEN DATA

CITY DATA ART RESIDENCY

2024

HAIFA, ISRAEL

YARDEN DISKIN
// FORTUNE COOKIES

VERA KORMAN
OMRI ALORO
// A VIBRATING ARMCHAIR

EYTAN MAN
IRIT CARMON POPPER
// PROXIMITY RELATIONS

MOAD GADIR
// DREAM AS DREAM

A VIBRATING
ARMCHAIR

Vera Korman
Omri Aloro

While everyone is busy trying to understand reality through tables and numbers, a second before humanity turns into AI pulp - calm your accumulated tension on the vibrating chair. Feel the data, breathe into it.

The vibrating chair serves as a conduit to transform data into a captivating sensory experience. We use data as raw material to delve into its dystopian meanings in the current period. It is a dialectical navigation of boundaries — anxiety and relaxation, overflow and emptiness, sensual and sterile, meaning and meaninglessness.

Video installation

FORTUNE COOKIES

Yarden Diskin

The work is based on urban data published by the Social and Economic Center of the Municipality of Haifa, with varying scales, between 2010 and 2023.

Collecting, organising, refining, cataloguing, mapping, analysing, editing, designing, presenting, publishing, and filing the data. The current discourse's obsession with data led me to look for holes. Where is the data missing? Which places are unknown? What is the urban 'Shumkom'? In other words, where is the 'data'? Despite the infinity of data - I did not receive a single piece of data to use for the project.

I was left with collecting, organising, refining, mapping, analysing, editing, designing, presenting, publishing and filing the data - which was random and random, like a fortune cookie.

Animation: Ada Rimon
06:56 min.

PROXIMIT RELATIONS

Eytan Mann

Historical research and curation:

Irit Carmon Popper

Proximity Relations, an installation incorporating sculpture and video, deals with digitising the ruins of the Wadi Salib neighbourhood - turning the buildings and the archive into data. Five video screens describe movement through the site and the archive, as well as through various representations of the data - from computer language to 3D simulation. Two houses are revealed as central elements in the archive - the Abu Hatzera house, owned by the Renault family until 1948, and became a synagogue in the 1950s. Up the stairs, the Beit Karaman complex is a modern villa. The movement between these two houses is between different historical narratives about Wadi Salib.

Video installation
and sculpture