Oliver Kellow The “Digital HourGlass” is an abstracted hourglass form set in granite and extending an antenna towards the sky. Like the sands in a regular hourglass the “Digital HourGlass” will change from one binary state to the other when the upper bulb expires. The viewer may interact with the …
Nina Mengin 2013 The communicative and ritual aspects of having a meal go through steady changes. Fast food and convenience food changed our eating behaviour radically. One of the consequences is that individual snacks exchange ritual meals within a family. Even if we eat high quality foods, we are still …
Marie Polakova & Veselina Dashinova Have you ever thought that microscopic organisms could be something more than a scientific specimen or feared disease? Something you could care for and even grow to love? The Micro Pets project is looking into the unthinkable, considering microbes of infinitesimal size as endearing and …
by Isidora Ficovic This interactive video installation uses the qualitative research method of taking interviews in the streets of Linz. The public has been investigated about the question ‘Which tool would you use to destroy a desktop?’. The most common answer is the “hammer”. The public decided the hammer to …
Ivan Petkov „Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment.“ E.M. Cioran, The New Gods Starting with the sunrise, an empty book is being flipped by an airflow. At midday, the amount of the pages which have been turned, roughly equals the ones which are still left. At …
by César Escudero Andaluz This media archeology project is based on the reinterpretation of an optical telecommunication device dated in 1787. It develops new interfaces (physical and graphic) by embedding current platforms such as webcams, telemonitoring systems, streamings channels or closed-circuit surveillance. The recognition system for video tracking detects the threshold color changes in five different points …
by Alberto Boem sculpTon is an autonomous sonic object which uses the metaphor of sound sculpting for connecting physical information in digital audio. By manipulating the object the user can literally sculpt the sound through a real-time sound synthesis which reverberates the object structure. This project explores a novel approach …
Alessio Chierico Arnulf Rainer for digital performers, concert version 2013 General description “Arnulf Rainer for digital performers” is an installation that reenact the Peter Kubelka’s film: Arnulf Rainer. This experimental film is based on a composition of black and white frames that creates a stroboscopic rhythm formed by …
by Chiara Esposito. Sometimes a plant dreams of flying. Movements in plants are usually imperceptible and associated with growth or following the sun. Plants that are capable of rapid movements look like animals or strange chimeras. But some plants indeed have an affinity with the air and the flight: some …
by David Gann About 28.000 genes are positioned on a ring which is representing the genome. The brightness stands for the expression level (how much gene product is produced) of a gene and the lines indicate the interaction between those. The genes are sonic grains on a long audio sample that contains many aspects of our …