The blog

[updated: link to the RM! live wall frequently updated and displayed within the exhibition space http://medialab.github.io/RM-livewall/]

Reset Modernity! is an extended, on-going, field experiment, composed of 6 procedures and many different kind of works (art works, documents, etc), in order to reset a few of the instruments that allow us to register some of the confusing signals sent by the epoch.

We’d like to share with you information as well as get get feedback from visitors via Twitter.

We’d also like for you to make your contribution too (by "contribute" we mean something deeper and sustained than the usual "I like / dislike") by:

• Replying on Twitter to the tweets we wrote and that you can find in the list below (each relates to a procedure or a work displayed in our exhibition: just click on one of it to open it in Twitter and then to reply to it). In this case, everybody will be able to follow the whole conversation regarding one specific procedure or work.

See this example:

#ResetModernity! #C5
.@ArminLinke Whirlwind spans the distance with John Martin's #deluge: are you out or in the #spectacle? #Response-able?

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 avril 2016

@AIMEproject Cold shower when you realize this sublime whirlwind crosses sea so many refugees try. Speck of road hints to responsibility #c5

— Oliver Graf (@olivergraf) 18 mai 2016

or:

• Posting a new tweet, using the hashtags #ResetModernity! + the letter/number corresponding to each procedure & work (e.g., #ResetModernity! plus #A1 for the work Powers of Ten in the procedure A). These letters/numbers correspond to what you can/will find in the Field Book [you can find the the online English pdf version here] given to the visitors at the entrance of the exhibition space.

As a result, a selection of the tweets (and other excerpts from various critics, etc.) are included in our "live wall" which is displayed in the exhibition space - and also available at the following link :
http://medialab.github.io/RM-livewall/

Please find the first tweets we wrote below:

In #ResetModernity! exhibition we offer to #reset a few instruments that allow to register some of the signals sent by our postmodern epoch.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 11 avril 2016

#Modernity was like a compass to tell progress from regress: until #Ecologicalmutation made it turn wild. Hence our slogan: #ResetModernity!

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 11 avril 2016

As AIME #ResetModernity is an experiment in collective experience sharing: a thought exhibition #Gedankenausstellung https://t.co/OqCAVr4RaO

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 11 avril 2016

Through those tweets we will explore the show following the #reset procedures written in the Fieldbook given to the visitors to find its way

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 11 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #i1
Pauline Julier's film 'After' opens the show: an exploration into the #GenerationGaps.https://t.co/RPIc7zvCRE

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 11 avril 2016

#ResetModernity!#ProcedureA is about #RelocalizingTheGlobal to situate in space and time #KnowledgeProduction

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 12 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #A1
.@EamesOffice #PowersOfTen is one origin of #GlobalView. As if localities could be smoothed up.https://t.co/OtPYSN8cUS

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 12 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #A2
The good thing with @OFFPOLINN Superpowers of Ten is to bring as many gaps as there are shifts #RepresentationScale.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 12 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #A3
If you look at @EamesOffice Rough Sketch you see how much work they did to give a smooth views of the #ChangesOfScale.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #A4
Since Kees Boeke drew the #PowersOfTen instead of filming you see how implausible is the smooth #ViewFromNowhere.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #A5
As soon as Peter Galison' students at @Harvard have a camera they give a new view of the practice of science.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #A6
Model for a Weather Vane by Sarah Sze makes sure you cannot smooth out the #ScientificView: art trumps science.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #A7
A research station built in the spirit of AIME helps #RelocalizingTheGlobal further & disagree with curators' choices.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #A8
Incredibly Gaspard Friedrich's Great Enclosure has inserted the globe inside one meander of the river Elbe.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #A9
Caspar Friedrich's embedding of the #globe has been lost by his engraver Johann Veith who smoothed things up too much.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #A10
Depending on the architecture, we feel like dwarves or giants: no one show this better than @ArminLinke (Cargo Lifter)

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #A11
A given place is always inside a protective envelope: to the point of folly as in this #SkiDome in Tokyo. @ArminLinke

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #A12
Even when heads of states assemble to #SaveTheGlobe, is still inside a local place, a stadium. @ArminLinke #COP19

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #ProcedureB explores how unnatural is the idea of an #OutsideNature: one interpretation is its origin in painting & art.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #B1
When you look at paintings (Thomas Struth's photograph) you also learn to be at the right distance with #catastrophes.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #B2
Hard to forget how much hist. of drawing (Dürer) has been put in the building of an artificial distance with the world.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #B3
People familiar with AIME will recognize how reference [REF] is actually different from the #ModelCopy format.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #B3
The #ModelCopy format has been learned from paintings not from the practice of #science & its cascade of images.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #B4
How impressive to be able to see Wall's Adrian Walker & its meditation of what it is to draw an anatomy.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #B5
Jeff Wall 2nd work Fieldwork offers a beautiful contrast with Adrian Walker: two powerful ways to insert #ArtInScience.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #B6
Taylor & Paravel @sensethnlab with Leviathan have renewed 'sensory #ethnography' by shifting ways of shooting the sea.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 avril 2016

#ResetModernity!#ProcedureC The idea of the show is that each proc. leads to the next: to the horizon of the #Globe is now added the #Earth

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 avril 2016

#ProcedureC
You could feel the #sublime when at a safe distance from #ecologicalmutation: but now you #FeelResponsible & powerless.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #C1
As in the splendid exhib. on #Sublime at @PompidouMetz, we start with a classical image of the 18th century idea of it.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #C2
John Martin's Deluge (1828) has become the #cliche of what people were #AbleToFeel when the #sublime was common in art.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #C3
The #shock is violent when you shift to Fabien Giraud's minuscule extract from #Fukushima's clod of #radioactive #soil

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #C4
With Tacita Dean huge panel you feel that you have entered a #GeologicalEra with #NoSafePlace to simply look at #nature

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #C5
.@ArminLinke Whirlwind spans the distance with John Martin's #deluge: are you out or in the #spectacle? #Response-able?

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #C6
Always the case with @ArminLinke : how can we deal with huge #ChangeOfScale & the weight of #GeologicalResponsibility?

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #C7
Simon Starling's striking set of prints closes the #FeedbackLoop between portraying palladium & printing with palladium

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #C8
Artists like Hicham Berrada are trying to work directly on #GeologicalProcesses making their #responsibility explicit.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #C9
People familiar with AIME will have no problem recognizing the face of #Gaia, different from the #ideals of the #Globe.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #C10#Climate #science labs fully reshuffle the #InsideOutside #boundaries that had been necessary for feeling the #sublime

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 13 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #C11
While artists play with #geology, geologists play with artists to anticipate future #ManMadeFossils!

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 14 avril 2016

End of #ProcedureC
A strange thing happened on the way towards #globalization. The #globe began to mutate into something else: the #Earth.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 14 avril 2016

#ProcedureD draws the lesson of the 3 first: we are probably #landing on a different #territory. The problem becomes how not to crash!

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 14 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #D1
Ristelhueber's #WestBanks could stand for the whole epoch: roads are cut away, no one can move freely #EndOfGlobal.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 14 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #D2
Once the #GlobalView is out aside how do we figure out where we stand: Bureau d'Études explores no #maps.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 14 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #D3
That #territory is shifting under our feet, this is what Folder does with @it_limes : don't expect fixed #boundaries.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 14 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #D4
Some #scientists have found for #NewSoil a perfect expression: #CriticalZones to describe the small pellicle of life.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 14 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #D5
To occupy a piece of #land is no guarantee against #landgrab: what @ahti_amed makes visible with his scale models.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 14 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #D6
Huyghe's Nymphéas Transplant measures the distance between Monet's Giverny time and that of the disputed #Anthropocene

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 14 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #D7
.@davidmaisel1 Lake Project insures we remember that standing on soil is learning to live in the ruins of what was

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 14 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #D8
The whole #agriculture business are now up for grabs if instead of #modernizing we begin to #land on #Earth.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 14 avril 2016

#ProcedureD
If the horizon of the #Globe has always been a #utopia & the land of old a pure fantasy, how to shift our horizon to face #Gaia

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 14 avril 2016

#ProcedureE#ReligionAndPolitics: each is able to generate violence. But together it's a maelstrom! How to be mundane, secular at last?

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 14 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #E1
A powerful way to disentangle #ReligionAndPolitics: to revisit films with @JMFrodon Devictor to see how they interfere.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 14 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #E2
Sometimes #ReligionAndPolitics potentiate one another as with #ObamaInCharleston reanalyzed by Lorenza Mondada's group.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 14 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #E3
14 years ago at the same place @zkmkarlsruhe explored #Iconoclash against #iconoclasm: a task even more urgent today.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 14 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #E4
Thanks to Bergmann & Schmuch, we have a look at the practical training needed to become able to #SpeakReligiously.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 14 avril 2016

#ProcedureF
Now things get more complicated because we have to regain a positive sense of what #techniques are able to do.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 14 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #F1
We won't get out of the #ArtificialSpace: the whole question is to learn how to select which artifice is livable.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 14 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #F2#LivingOrganisms & #TechnicalOrganisms keep exchanging properties as with Ristelhueber's view of Versailles pipes.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 14 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #F3
Even #digital techniques seem to move #underground as @emmacharlesart shows by following #DataBunkers in Sweden.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 14 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #F4
Data infrastructures travere our daily life oddly @medialab_ScPo make those interferences visible. #HFT @SniperInMahwah

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 14 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #F5#TechniquesAndSociety are twice the same thing, so that making a toaster is visiting a whole culture. @Thomas_Thwaites

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 14 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #F6
UFD offers a way to balance the building of a vase with its weight in #pollution: a way to dig further into techniques.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 14 avril 2016

#ResetModernity! #F7
AIME Readers will recognize the #modesofexistence [TEC], and the shift from despised objects to moving projects.

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 14 avril 2016

Just when you thought you had finished, @TerritorialA The Museum of Oil opens its vast #dataviz inventory of how to keep oil in the ground!

— AIME (@AIMEproject) 14 avril 2016

Please find here the full list of hashtags you can use on twitter to share with us and with other visitors your own experience (critics, contributions, etc.) of the Reset Modernity! exhibition.