Through this multi-sensory experience and provoked by an artistic counter-performance (Ruth Mateus-Berr, Julia Soto Delgado), the audience should be able to reflect on and question digital surveillance and technological authority as it may be part of technology-mediated audience participation. This kind of embodied and technological intervention creates an experimental situation where accepted customs, habits, and eeriness convene interchangingly.

Performers: Chris Bruckmayr, Didi Bruckmayr
Art direction: Fares Kayali, Oliver Hödl, Uli Kühn, Thomas Wagensommerer
Künstlerische Counter-Performance: Ruth Mateus-Berr, Julia Soto Delgado

Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien): Fares Kayali, Oliver Hödl, Peter Purgathofer, Geraldine Fitzpatrick, Alexander Filipp, Christoph Bartmann
University of Applied Arts Vienna (Die Angewandte): Ruth Mateus-Berr, Thomas Wagensommerer, Uli Kühn, Julia Soto Delgado, Anna Lerchbaumer
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (MDW): Johannes Kretz, Hande Sağlam
The Open University: Simon Holland

Breaking The Wall wird gefördert von FWF PEEK.

http://www.piglab.org/breakingthewall

ÆTER thus “listens” to it’s surroundings—nature, technology and the visitors—as well as to itself. The piece is therefore constantly changing and invites to expand not only our perception of the world and its dimensions, but also our own perception apparatus. The intention is not to create a performative instrument enabling visitors to play, but rather to create a complex interconnected network.

ÆTER takes it’s inspiration from the Russian scientist and musician Léon Theremin’s (1896-1993) most iconic invention—the theremin—a musical instrument which derived from an attempt to create a surveillance device.

Christian Skjødt: www.skjodt.net

With thanks to:
Danish Arts Foundation
SNYK – The Danish Centre for Contemporary, Experimental Music and Sound Art
ENCAC – European Network for Contemporary Audiovisual Creation
Caroline Gagné & everybody from Avatar Quebec
Peer K / Gadget Group