The Beirut Psychogeographical Investigation

RYBN.ORG will conduct a series of daily interviews based on an extra-disciplinary approach. The interviews will be led under specific conditions, borrowing at the same time the methodology of sociological investigation, the principles of psycho-geography, as well as the features of the Voight-Kampff test. From the different topics that will be introduced, discussed and deconstructed this investigation seeks to uncover some of the paradoxical paradigms that structure the city of Beirut using the library as a formal paradigm. Interviews will be automatically transcribed, “data-fied” and analysed during afternoon sessions. On September 13 and 15 the public will have the opportunity to attend and contribute to two decoding sessions in 98weeks Project Space. The materials resulting from these experiments will be digitally (re)organised as a matrix to generate the psycho-geographical map of Beirut, captured as a Borgesian Library.

About RYBN.ORG
RYBN.ORG is an extra-disciplinary artistic research platform founded in 2000 as a web entity disseminated into several servers all over the Internet. RYBN.ORG operates through interactive & networked installations, digital/analog visual cross-performances and pervasive computing. Their projects refer to the codified systems of artistic representation (aesthetics, painting, architecture, avant-garde, music) as well as to socio-political and physical phenomenons, exploring various fields such as economics, data mass analysis, perverted artificial intelligence, disrupting auto-learning, language and syntaxes, sensory perception and cognitive systems. Their work has been shown in numerous contemporary art exhibitions and media art festivals, such as Ars Electronica, Transmediale, ISEA, Elektra, Cellsbutton, and museums and institutions like LABoral, Centre Pompidou, La Gaîté Lyrique, ZKM.

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volume.beirut@gmail.com