1ND3X
AUDIMAT
13.AUG.2025
AUDIMAT
13.AUG.2025
In a way, we could think of the Internet as an extension not only of our individual psyche, but also of our collective psyche. Chaosmotic, made up of subjectivities, signs, desires, externalised from their physical imprints, exported from their biological memories. These subjectivities are mutant, transversal, porous, fragmented. Through the uninterrupted flow of data, the monster feeds insatiably on our habits, whose attraction to the new and novel is invariably linked to that of the perishable.
The fact that nostalgia can give anything a career does not prevent the race to break with the past, which contemporaneity is supposed to pursue relentlessly. The Internet is an archive of the future, and like few other phenomena, it excels at sharpening our awareness of the present. This says something about us: for a moment, we are allowed to situate ourselves somewhere in the eternal millennia that our fleshly condition cannot differentiate. If the emphasis is on the present, the immediate, the live, change shuffles the cards so quickly that it becomes difficult to understand the game. Its pace betrays a desire to bypass the obsolescence of what belongs to the past; and as soon as this desire appears, the distance from what is happening in the present, in its immediacy, becomes almost measurable—and unbearable: it reveals my distance and my proximity to what is happening in the world—which I would do well to listen to if I exist somewhere at this very moment. POV.
The fact that nostalgia can give anything a career does not prevent the race to break with the past, which contemporaneity is supposed to pursue relentlessly. The Internet is an archive of the future, and like few other phenomena, it excels at sharpening our awareness of the present. This says something about us: for a moment, we are allowed to situate ourselves somewhere in the eternal millennia that our fleshly condition cannot differentiate. If the emphasis is on the present, the immediate, the live, change shuffles the cards so quickly that it becomes difficult to understand the game. Its pace betrays a desire to bypass the obsolescence of what belongs to the past; and as soon as this desire appears, the distance from what is happening in the present, in its immediacy, becomes almost measurable—and unbearable: it reveals my distance and my proximity to what is happening in the world—which I would do well to listen to if I exist somewhere at this very moment. POV.
Audimat, as part of the TR13ZE show, is an excursion from the digital wanderings of Martin and Nicolas. Their practice documents the movement of these flows, between subjective resources, the friction created by the Internet, countercultures and work contexts.
This chaosmos in which to lose oneself, an imperfect and ideal utopia, makes one forget the passing of time. When browsing, we activate a form of intimate tension: in this age of individual ornamentation, the Internet is characterised by the multitude of communities that support individuals who are searching for inner autonomy, and whose self-esteem demands a distinction that the Internet will reward favourably in terms of participation in ideas. Thus, I fight against anonymity and erasure by actively participating in the production and updating of what makes up this reality, thanks to the tools at my disposal, and transcend a material, limited and structured world. Through this voice, I can also pretend to escape the anxiety of conformity.
Free is an English word that combines two distinct realities in French: libre, in a political and existential sense; and gratuit, in an economic and functional sense. The Internet subtly plays on the useful or dangerous confusion that gives rise to this same type of ambiguity. The gift economy is at the heart of online exchanges: a system based not on commercial transactions, but on the circulation of content, knowledge and emotions—which create reciprocal obligations and spontaneous forms of solidarity. This symbolic economy, sometimes perverted but tenacious, constitutes one of the invisible architectures of the social Internet. It profoundly transforms our modes of communication in a viral manner; this metastasis of language continues to structure our world, to affect our social, moral, and cultural codes—and by making us aware of it, it also makes us critical.
Faced with this tension, some are working to preserve certain founding principles of a free, decentralised and supportive Internet. These digital watchdogs remind us that the utopia of the Internet does not exist any more than its chaos is orderly; its aesthetic is its ethic: a complex representation of realities in split screens. This is a cause dear to the heart of 1ND3X, so the strategy would be a minesweeper game.
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ANALOG PHOTOS Raphaëlle Serres & Eléonore Bonello
The bar was run by Eléonore, Renaud and Raphaëlle.
A multiple was published for the event in 50 copies
The bar was run by Eléonore, Renaud and Raphaëlle.
A multiple was published for the event in 50 copies