Jari Kauppinen is professor of sound design at the Theatre Academy, Uniarts Helsinki. For a considerable time, he has been interested in the sometimes tense relationship between the immediate vocal address and its technologically processed and mediated other in performative settings. His artistic research aims to establish a site of poietic dynamics within the process of mediation through the application of transductive operations – in both the technological and linguistic dimensions of the concept.
Jari Kauppinen Failed mediations – a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart
Dear experiencer. Collected below is a set of work diary entries and experiments that I have considered as relevant for both the first intersection and presentation of thoughts, actions and remarks that took place in the Networked Actor Theory-event in spring 2019, and the second intersection taking place in this research exposition.Jari Kauppinen Failed mediations – a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart
The Kairos-version of the text attempts to obey the principle of the opportune moment: the text fragments are laid out in a narrative fashion. The fragmentary notes and ideas seem to grow from and into each other, often spanning considerable lengths of time. It is as if the feeling of ultra-short intermediary archives is played out in extreme slow motion, transducing the micro-events, operating in the media-temporal, into the macro-temporality of the operation in the linguistic domain.Jari Kauppinen Failed mediations – a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart
In the Khronos-version the diary entries are arrange reverse linear chronological order. The arrangement mimics reversed discussion forum logic: the most recent entry is on top and from there the reader can sink further and further into the history of the developing research process. It may be seen as a journey through the un-forming and de-structing of ideas toward their origins. It may seem that there are several conflicting but insistent contributors to this process: the different points of entry to the research area yield different linguistic styles and outcomes, as if representing different actors, their thinking and writing processes.