A Doppelganger performance
die>com
A live audiovisual performance for two projectors, made entirely from anonymized medical imaging.
die>com
die>com is a live audiovisual performance for two projectors, made entirely from anonymized medical imaging: the body converted into a file, then thrown back onto the wall at architectural scale.
The title is a pun that earns its keep. DICOM is the format every hospital scan is stored in; split it open and you get die and .com, mortality on one side, the body as data stream and product on the other. The scans themselves are real, stripped of every identifying trace. No name, no date. What's left is a body that could belong to anyone, which is precisely the point.
Visually the piece works through a narrow palette rather than an effects catalogue: white wireframes on black, arteries lit up like circuit paths, contrast dye blooming into feedback trails the way ink spreads in water, and passages where the image collapses into glitch or the flat, indifferent light of a diagnostic monitor. Niels Poensgen performs the sound live as an improvisation on the same theme. Not audio extracted from the scans, but a musical response to what the images are doing in the room, played against them in real time.
die>com travels fully self-equipped and adapts to whatever surface it's given, from a club wall to a façade. Duration is 20 minutes.
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