Hammer & Chisel - John Hegre / Gisle Frøysland

Piksel Satellite Event at Digital_ia 15 At “Hammer and chisel”, Hegre delivers harsh noise and feedback using guitar and effect boxes whilst Frøysland plugs the audio signal to the videomixer, sends it to another videomixer and back, feedback, analog keying, analog filters. From physicality to electronics. They confirm Bourriaud suggestion “What if true art was defined by its very ability to escape the determinacies of the respective medium? Or put differently, it is today necessary to fight, (...) for the indeterminacy of the source code of art, for its dissemination, so that it can prove to be unassignable (...)”.² “Hammer and chisel” from Gisle Frøysland / John Hegre also inherit Nicolas Bourriaud proposal for postmedia definition. Bourriaud is convinced that the “postmedia condition“ is part of a liberating transformation of the arts, one that mixes its themes and theatres as much as it mixes its styles, materials, and media.