zII is an installation that functions according to the magnetic principles of a computer hard disk. It organizes tiny metal particles that are magnetically sensitive.

In fact these particles are ground computer parts : circuit boards, hard drives, processors, monitor deflectors, et cetera. This granulated hardware sand lays on electromagnetic grids that can trigger sudden transformations in the pattern of the metal particles.

They react to the magnetic stimulations by forming singular and abrupt sculptural transformations. One can gaze in silent amazement at the beautiful patterns that these particles that look like black metal filings, take on.

By rotating small dials, the audience can also manipulate the magnetic fields generated by zgodlocator /version zII. As a result, the granulated computer grid, again and again, form new freakish and constantly changing shapes. Of course, unlike a computer hard disk, zgodlocator/version zII does not concern itself with the long-term storage of text or images. zgodlocator is about dynamic patterns. If it has a memory, it is a very short and fast changing one.

In zgodlocator, magnetism becomes a dynamic container for storing, and also manipulating and processing information in its raw form:matter. One could interpret zgodlocator/version zII as a work that stresses the continuous reprocessing of information that takes place in a computer environment. At the same time it is a subtle installation that couples visuals to sound. A variety of contact microphones and electromagnetic sensors set up in the hardware soils capture the ‘hardware-sounds’. The program encodes the raw audio and converts it into graphic patterns, and this output is instantly visualized in the granular landscape.