World Briefing (2006) by Oliver Hockenhull Performance event and exhibition opening January 16th at 8pm PST.

This work questions and engages with ideas of immediacy, causality, randomness, and consciousness. The key feed to the study is The Global Consciousness Project (GCP) - an international effort involving researchers from several institutions and countries, designed to explore whether the construct of interconnected consciousness can be scientifically validated through objective measurement. The project builds on experiments conducted over the past 35 years at a number of laboratories, suggesting that human consciousness interacts with random event generators (REGs), apparently "causing" them to produce non-random patterns. Oliver Hockenhull works with a random event generator and with data from the GCP. These live data feeds are used to influence the play of a repository of video images, audio and textual elements speaking to chance, anamolie, synchronicity, and the abyss of the implicit. In performance, the work is staged as a "consciousness" event where the audience attempts to influence the random event generator. Vancouver artist Eric Metcalfe is featured in the video.