Chopin's Bicycle

Created by: Eric Dyer
When: 6 pm Wednesday, March 17, 2004
Where: HCC Ybor Room

The bicycle is an early human-empowering piece of technology, especially significant due to its large-scale reproducibility and effect on nearly all of society.

From the Artist:

"With the computer we are pushing past man's empowerment by technology into his elimination by it. In the creation of 'Chopin's Bicycle,' the production staff (the editor and the compositor) were replaced by the music staff: a music composition provided both the temporal structure (timing of cuts) and spatial structure (layered mise-en-scene). A computer-driven automated process made this possible."

"Furthermore, this music composition was written over 150 years ago. Our trend toward retro-referencing indicates a quiet realization that humankind has reached its peak-- we now only want to look back."

"In visual/procedural tandem, "Chopin's Bicycle" mirrors the alpha and omega of humankind's affair with technology while prophesizing future human obsolescence."