Fog is a vital response to the imperative of clarity, transparency, which is the first imprint of imperial power on bodies. To become foglike means that I finally take up the part of the shadows that command me and prevent me from believing all the fictions of direct democracy insofar as they intend to ritualize the transparency of each person in their own interests, and of all persons in the interests of all. To become opaque like fog means recognizing that we don’t represent anything, that we aren’t identifiable; it means taking on the untotalizable character of the physical body as a political body; it means opening yourself up to still-unknown possibilities."
Tiqqun, The Cybernetic Hypothesis

FILTER V is an experiment dealing with trust and control within the power dynamics inherent to the transparency society (1) and movements across the virtual realm. It is presented as a participative performance and sound installation connecting motion tracking and collective movement, focusing on the intangibility of digital monitoring and translating digital behavior.

The installation is utilizing the two rooms at SPEKTRUM. In the guise of aerobic instructions, movement is tracked and the body is used as a point of analysis, revealing habitual trust and repetition with others. These scripted gestures, which we perform everyday individually, become a collective act of imitation. In a second room, the captured data is translated into sonic rhythms as a method of interpretation, creating an ongoing ritual and soundscape.

The performance instructions include the project "Unpatentable Multi­touch Aerobics" - an Aerobics routine by Liat Berdugo and Phoebe Osborne. 

(1) „The Transparency Society“, BYUNG-CHUL HAN

Jasmine Guffond is a sound artist and composer from Sydney, Australia, living and working in Berlin, Germany. Her recent projects were interventions that employed digital technologies, sonification and the aesthetisation of data as a means of fostering discussion around contemporary surveillance technologies as well as producing experimental audio works. She has performed live internationally exhibited sound installations and recorded work with the Sigma Editions, Staubgold, Monika Enterprise and Sonic Pieces labels. 

Holger Heissmeyer is a Berlin based artist working in the field of digital media and interactive installation with an emphasis on the shaping and distortion of interpersonal communication through technology. These works are always sensitive to location and context. In the past, he has often collaborated with the urban games collective Invisible Playground, creating experiences that potentially put participants' perspectives on themselves and the city in a different perspective. He has also studied psychology and worked with movies and bodies. 

Eliza Goldox is a Berlin based conceptual artist and creative initiator. Her work is focusing on human interactions in a variety of contexts. She investigates the concept of collectivism and the individual within collective structures. Mirroring perspectives of contemporary identities and systems, her work is expressed as inter-medial outcomes, using aspects of installation, video, performance and new media tools. Interventions and situations in different natural and public spaces of various cultural contexts is one of her main intention, as tool for action, interaction, research and wonder. Part of her work is also the initiation of different formats for collaborative artistic creation as founder and creative director of ZONA DYNAMIC project initiative.