Field Experiment Osnabrück

MomenTech Expands Their Field Experiment with the Large-Format Field Experiment Osnabrück, Bringing a Live Piece of the Big Bang to Lower Saxony

NEW YORK, December 24, 2010 (updated January 2, 2011) -- MomenTech has released plans for Field Experiment Osnabrück, a large-scale work in the public sphere based on their Field Experiment installation, an interactive, site-specific audiovisual project that explores meditation, self-hypnosis, the media and our cosmic origins by asking viewers to imagine a field after having stared into live television static for a period of 10 seconds.

Field Experiment Osnabrück re-situates the original room-sized installation design of Field Experiment, projecting live television static on a large screen behind a window in a historic building in Osnabrück.

Mounted on the street level outside the building are the following instructions for viewers:

INSTRUCTIONS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE FIELD EXPERIMENT OSNABRÜCK:

1. Stare directly into the static on the screen.
2. In your head, count slowly the numbers backwards from 10 to 1 (at the rate of approximately one number per second)
3. When you get to the number "1," close your eyes.
4. Imagine a field.

The amount of time the participant stays in this position, with eyes closed in front of the television, is up to the participant.

OSNABRÜCK & THE BIG BANG

Some scholars believe that Osnabrück is the location of Germany's oldest gymnasium, or school, being the purported site of a gymnasium built in 804 by Charlemagne. This fact makes Osnabrück a perfect location to study the cosmic signals that were first formed at the birth of the universe.

According to Wikipedia, "the charter [of the school] with the date is disputed by historians, some of whom believe it could be a forgery." The fact that its status is up for debate only adds to the overarching dialogue presented by Field Experiment Osnabrück, as the age of the universe itself is disputed. The majority view is 13.7 billion years, but some scientists are questioning that number.

According to a recent article in The Economist, "Roger Penrose, of Oxford University, believes that the Big Bang in which the visible universe began was not actually the beginning of everything. It was merely the latest example of a series of such bangs that renew reality when it is getting tired out."

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