Program
Braun Tube Jazz Band
It all began with a very fruitful mistake: Japanese artist/musician Ei Wada mistakenly connected a sound cable to a video port and thereby transformed sound into an image. Wada proceeded to take advantage of the fortuitous happenstance by recording the image with a camera and playing it back as an audio signal. Continue reading
Learn to be a Machine | DistantObject #1
Learn to be a Machine | DistantObject #1 is an abstract system of obedience and manipulation. The video installation features a representation of the artist himself, who has provided a means for the audience to interact with the system. By scrolling a trackball, the audience can manipulate the direction of the artist’s eyes. Continue reading
Aerosol
People transfer systems from the physical to virtual space. But what happens if this process is reversed? Aerosol is an experiment, which investigates exactly this by using a particle simulation. The fascinating thing about such a particle system is the emergent, unpredictable phenomena. A taut fabric surface is formed into a continually changing landscape by using a grid of 16 servomotors that is attached to the fabric. Due to gravitation, small metal balls placed on top of the fabric are set in motion. Continue reading
Shadowgram
Shadowgram brings out visitors’ own creativity. Silhouette images reveal an entire world of thinking about current issues. With playful ease, opinions materialize into a real picture. Continue reading
ICT ART CONNECT.study roundtable / Lunchbox 2
What is the outcome if work on novel ICT – Information and Communication Technologies –is linked with artistic expression? This is the question asked by the study ICT Art Connect funded by the European Commission (DG CONNECT) and the question raised during the roundtable. Following a trend towards convergence of all domains of knowledge, the Arts are gaining prominence as a catalyst for radical transformations of R&D&I practices. Continue reading
OHMI
The OHMI projects main goal – fostering development of a one handed musical instrument for physically impaired musicians – has long since gotten underway. Continue reading
Smartflower
smartflower energy technology GmbH is an Austrian company that has developed a mobile solar power plant for use by a typical household. Continue reading
LeNi
The mission of a project named LeNi – an acronym of Leòn, Nicaragua – is to construct housing fit for human beings to accommodate single mothers and their children in the slums of Leòn. Their current quarters made of logs and plastic tarps provide hardly any protection during the rainy season. Cooking, toilet and bathing facilities are usually under a makeshift roof outdoors. Continue reading
The Creative Intelligence
Knowing how the mind creates ideas is not enough. We need to train our minds and create a culture that supports the creative potential. Ideeomat explains how to put this knowledge into practice, so everyone brings their best to the innovation process. Continue reading
Colliding Worlds. How Cutting-Edge Science is Redefining Contemporary Art
Butterflies created by designers, plastic surgery as the subject of a theatrical performance, a glow-in-the-dark rabbit, and data sculptures – the interplay of art and science has reached a new dimension in which it has become a discipline in its own right. Artsci is what renowned author, journalist, historian and philosopher Arthur I. Miller calls it. Continue reading