Toen en Nu (1990)

Toen en Nu is a born-digital, live-generated installation programmed in AmigaBASIC created in 1990, the last year of Mul’s studies and three years before the introduction of the internet. Based around the words “toen” (“then” in English) and “nu” (“now”), the artwork plays with the concept of time, alluding to the idea that the “now moment” is ever-evasive. The artwork consists of a 1990s Amiga computer and monitor. On the monitorscreen the word “nu” flashes quickly, but quickly with a randomly selected time interval, flashes into the word “toen”. This repeats continuously, with the word “nu” flashing on the screen and quickly changing to “nu”, endlessly printing more and more words to the screen.

Exhibitions:
International Audio Visual Experimental Festival Arnhem, 1990.
Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, 2016, Schiedam, the Netherlands.
Dortmunder U, Dortmund, Germany, 2018.