Reverse Engineering (2004)

»Reverse Engineering« is a collective reading attempt, in which random stain structures are analyzed through multiple context filters.

A range of scientific and artistic methods dealing with stains or similar visual information were applied to interpret these stains, to extract and reconstruct any context-specific information contained. This research process stays at a unfinished state, each method has a right of its own, none gets in the lead.

Originally emerged by accident on an artist's shirt during his painting process, these stains are a starting point, the visual basis for a growing cloud of meta-information (visual, musical, etc.) not aiming at a definite result, posssibly affecting each other.

Analyses:
Ferran Adrià (ElBulli), Dipl.biol. Mark Benecke (Forensic Analyst), Prof.Janos Urai (RWTH Aachen, Endogene Geology), Martin Holtschneider (RWTH Aachen, Theoretical Physics), ABBYY fine reader 5.

Sound interpretations:
Paul Devens, Roel Meelkop (line records), Carsten Nicolai (raster-noton), F.X.Randomiz (sonig), Christof Weitenberg (Physics und Compositon, Uni Saarbrücken), Allan Gretzki, Ingmar Weber (FH Aachen Soundlab).