DLD08 Arts

DLD considers cultural production and creativity necessary for inspiration and disruption and fosters interdisciplinary exchanges and new forms of dialogue. How can creative production contribute to a "LIVE" social networking platform in a way, that contradicts "art on display" at a conference setting and also involves the audience´s attention by participation and context?

Olaf Nicolai, "Prime number pattern" (2008) Berlin-based artist Olaf Nicolai has designed "Prime number pattern (version 0 - 1481)", 2008, a limited set of endless visual language patterns, consisting of randomly occurring prime number combinations. The patterns originate in a simple graphical representation of these combinations being both, graphical designs and a "universal code" to represent the western numeral system via prime numbers. Jokingly calling it "inspired by Atari", Nicolai´s contribution is based on his fascination for universal alegorithms, symbolisms and patterns of regularity within them.