March 2, 2018
Filed under: Colaboradio · Interview · Minute/Year · Signal Tide

We were interviewed by Rosanna Lovell, for Colaboradio’s Berliner Runde programme (part of Pi-Radio Berlin) about Signal Tide, Minute/Year, and plenty more. Listen in full here. | More »

January 3, 2018
Filed under: 2018 · Ladenkino · Minute/Year

The 2018 iteration of Minute/Year began on January 1., 2018, in Ladenkino, Berlin, and will continue until December 31., 2018. | More »

October 2, 2017
Filed under: 1–100 · Bethanien · Impro.per.arts

We will be presenting a new work, 1–100, on October 29., as part of the 60_minutes series of impro.per.arts, in Kunstquartier Bethanien. | More »

September 20, 2017
Filed under: LACMA · Signal Tide

Signal Tide will be presented at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from September 21. to 24. — LACMA’s Unframed blog did a post about the work to accompany the presentation. | More »

September 12, 2017
Filed under: LACMA · LES-1 · Satellites · Signal Tide · Signal Tide research · Space

In our previous post, we talked about how we created music for Signal Tide — together with David, Drew, James, and several others — recording new versions of specific sacred harp hymns. However, the work that we undertook was not just a process of re-creating new versions of existing songs. We also recorded many further strands of sound, deliberately leaving the borders of this process porous and diffuse. We gave… | More »

September 9, 2017
Filed under: LACMA · LES-1 · Satellites · Signal Tide · Signal Tide research · Space

Most of what we have written in these blog posts over the last year or so has been about our satellite-tracking process — antennas, software, satellite-pass monitoring, stuff like that. However, this process of receiving signals from the LES-1 satellite is just one half of Signal Tide. Signal Tide has two sides. We’ve been referring to them, in our planning, as the ‘sky side’ and the ‘ground side’. Materially, the… | More »

September 1, 2017
Filed under: LACMA · LES-1 · Satellites · Signal Tide · Signal Tide research · Space

We’ve been pretty busy with Signal Tide work in the last few months — so busy, in fact, that we’re a bit late in sharing any news about our research. So, let’s fix that now. Until pretty recently, we were still out in the German countryside, in the small village of Stolzenhagen. One of the advantages in being out in a place like this — which we’ve briefly mentioned before… | More »

June 22, 2017
Filed under: LACMA · LES-1 · Satellites · Signal Tide · Signal Tide research · Space

Over the last few weeks, we have returned again to the technical questions related to receiving satellite signals for Signal Tide. The work that we are doing involves chipping away at a few different interrelated questions that we will need to answer in order to make Signal Tide work. We’ll be posting about them all in the upcoming weeks. One of these in particular, however, has recently been more central… | More »

June 9, 2017
Filed under: Minute/Year · Scope Sessions · Texts

The text below was originally presented as a talk at Scope Sessions #66, in Panke, Berlin, on Thursday, June 8th, 2017. This talk was based around some observations drawn from the first year of Minute/Year and some related artistic strategies. Minute/Year — Spectrograms, 2016, Day 1–366 Hi. We are Kata Kovács and Tom O’Doherty. We are an artist duo, and we live and work in Berlin. We have worked together… | More »

June 4, 2017
Filed under: Das Giftraum · Minute/Year

We will have a small solo exhibition, Minute/Year (2017, January–June), at Das Giftraum, Berlin, from July 7. to 9., presenting video works derived from the first six months of Minute/Year in 2017. | More »