»The Institute of General Theory is a project of indeterminate duration, for anything from one to an infinite number of participants. It operates in an undefined area, in the grey zone where there is no distinction between fiction and science, art and craft, independent work and self exploitation; between game, experiment and paid work, between experimental and studio space, or between museum and university.«*
Hagen M. Betzwieser
POST ARTISTIC RESEARCH & NEW NEW MEDIA
It operates in an undefined area, in the grey zone where there is no distinction between fiction and science, art and craft, independent work and self exploitation; between game, experiment and paid work, between experimental and studio space,
or between museum and university.*
Es arbeitet in einem undefinierten Zwischen-bereich, in jener grauen Zone, in der kein Unterschied mehr zwischen Fiktion und Wissenschaft, Kunst und Handwerk, Selbst-ständigkeit und Selbstausbeutung, zwischen Spiel, Experiment und bezahlter Arbeit, zwischen Versuchs- und Werkraum, oder zwischen Museum und Hochschule gemacht wird.
The more precise the measuring instruments, and the more certain the insights, the more unstable is the consistency of the reality the Institute of General Theory dares to approach.*
Je präziser die Messinstrumente, je sicherer die Erkenntnisse, um so instabiler die Realität, an deren Konsistenz das Institut für Allgemeine Theorie sich heranwagt.
*Jean-Baptiste Joly
Founding Director / Gründungsdirektor Akademie Schloss Solitude
From the book,
»Institut für Allgemeine Theorie / Institute of General Theory«,
merz&solitude, ISBN 978-3-937158-31-0, 2007
