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THURSDAY, 01.09. TO 06.09. / AFO ARCHITEKTURFORUM OBERÖSTERREICH
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Fietzek Frank, Winters Uli
Two puppets are involved in a discussion about language theory—with more or less witty statements including Wittgensteinquotes and Russian weather proverbs. A slap in the face stops the opponent and gives way for another intellectual excursus about the different layers of speech.
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Raaf Sabrina
A tiny robot is equipped with a sensor to measure the CO2 content of the air. As a reaction to the reading, the robot draws a thin green vertical line on the wall of the exhibition space. It then moves a few millimeters, takes the next reading and records it as another line on the wall.What gradually takes shape is a “lawn” drawn in green ink that, by the end of the exhibition’s run, will have spread over all of the space's walls.
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Pirker Stephan
An audacious machine: the visitor straps the “skeleton guitar” onto his back, lays belly-down on a flexible sled and makes a high-speed run down a projection of a bobsled track. The curves to the right strum the bass strings; the curves to the left strum the treble strings.
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Gerrard John
In this mixed-reality installation, a tiny virtual character standing on a ladder looks out through a window into the real world. It describes the scenery, occasionally uses hand motions to depict the outline of an object and reflects on the state of the world.“The Ladder” produces virtual presence in a real space; at the same time, the virtual character longs for physicality.
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Every age has its ideal of beauty.“Miss Digital World” is the attempt to discover a contemporary aesthetic paragon realized through Virtual Reality. It is the second time that Italian designer Franz Cerami is staging an international competition for 3D models that has become a touchstone of 3D designers all over the world. They endow their creations with not only drop-dead good looks but also individual biographies and character quirks all their own.
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Stedman Nicolas
This is a robot in the unusual form of a blanket that moves and reacts to the actions of installation visitors. When you sit or lie on the bed, the blanket starts to wrap you or cover you up. Here, robot technology takes on quite an emotional, physical note.
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Jíra Václav
Since the early 1960s, Václav Jíra has been using pieces of scrap metal and scrounged parts to construct his mechanical objects. Composed of components being put to uses far different from the ones for which they were intended, these contraptions constantly exude an ironically entertaining quality.
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Fischer Andreas
Andreas Fischer develops what you might call “skeletonized” machines, devices pared to the bare bones of axles, wheels and wire. The apparatuses are continually able to get along without a sensible function but they are also in a position to undertake independent action at any time and to develop a kinetic life of their own.
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Díaz Federico
A media architecture in which the simulation of a fictive enterprise projects the myth of the Samurai into the 21st century.
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Bleecker Julian, Zurkow Marina
This animated figure reacts to the proximity or distance of installation visitors. The farther away the visitor is, the more outrageously impudent its behavior; as the visitor approaches, it becomes increasingly timid. A caustic parody of political attitudes.
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Lee Daniel
" 'Origin' was a series of manipulated photo images and animation created in 1999. It describes the human evolution based on my own imagination. I suggest that there were ten stages in human evolution, from the fish form (as Coelacanth) and then transformed to the reptile, monkey and human...
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Ujino Muneteru
Made entirely by the artist using parts from motorbikes, trucks and electric shops, the "Love Arms” are huge instruments which must be strapped to the player’s body and require considerable physical strength to play.
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Infossil
A statement about alienation and the hubris of technological progress.
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Glissmann Pascal, Höfflin Martina
ELFs are tiny, mechanical, solar-powered constructions whose behavior resembles in many aspects that of natural forms of life. The light-sensitive ELFs utilize their chaotic tones and importunate movements to attract the attention of other creatures in their environment.
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Muelas Federico
Ink is dribbled into clear water. These drops are enlarged and projected, which makes it possible to follow the ink's diffusion throughout the water. From this moving image, 20 photosensitive modules generate sound and thus establish a correspondence between a natural process and electronically produced tones.
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Hertz Garnet
A bio-robot: a mechanical system transforms the movements of a cockroach into the locomotion of a threewheeled machine. The machine is equipped with a ping-pong ball that serves as a tracking device; the cockroach runs on the ball, and this sets the machine in motion.
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Snibbe Scott Sona
When a visitor blows into the installation’s 12 tiny pinwheels, his/her breath is transferred to 12 large fans and amplified into a wind that fills the entire space. These fans then repeat a loop pattern in which the tiny pinwheels are driven by the wind.
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nicebots – Mark Argo, Daniel Hirschmann, Ann Poochareon (US), Jean-Marc Gauthier
Kurt – Nikolaus Passath (AT)
Life Support System – Luca Gemma (IT)
Lumen – Ivan Poupyrev (RU), Tatsushi Nashida (JP)
The Source – Andrew Shoben (UK)
Several projects by Time’s Up (AT)
Projects out of the Ars Electronica Archive
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AES+F group
A photografic travesty featuring grotesque caricatures of the popular pictoral worlds of Hollywood and computer games. The title is derived from a real computer game. The lead characters are played by young people in the Sinai desert. Their weapons are replicas of those killing machines that have been tried-and-true performers on numerous virtual battlefields.
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