*History/Time, Signal/Noise*

In many languages, the word for "history" is the same as the word for "story". In German, both are called "Geschichte", in French, they are "l'histoire".

History can therefore be seen as a science of storytelling: the process of recalling the semi-random events of the world and constructing an order in which they make sense: in which they have meaning.

Something similar happens in electronics. A radio, television set or satellite receiver must tap into a sea of electromagnetic waves to retrieve the pattern of a message: idea from chaos, a signal amidst the noise.

If history is signal, then time itself must be recognised as noise: an infinitely complex mess of data that resists interpretation.

Our project is therefore to listen to the noise of history, moments which yield no discernible signal: the insignificant events.

Herein lies a paradox. As artists, as humans, we have a natural impulse to transmute chaos into art.

Is our goal then to reclaim the forgotten into the field of recorded time?

Or should we resist, in our representations of insignificant events, our instinct to render them significant?