TRANSCODE Barcodes, QR codes, perforated papers, dot patterns, images: information is stored in various visual forms. Those who know the code can also understand the information behind it. In contrast, abstract paintings, television screens with noise, random graffiti also carry information, but from which it is not easy and generally …

TRANSCODE Saturday, September 7th 2019 10.00 am - 6.00 pm PostCity Shut down your computer and join the second edition of The Internet Yami-Ichi in Linz! The Internet Yami-Ichi, from the Japanese “Internet Black Market,” but also “sickness” and “addiction,” is a flea market where people consumed by the Internet …

TRANSCODE MachinedHuman! is a performance-oriented interactive installation that questions the existing. We are presented with an enthroned instance, apparently half human and half machine. The heart of this entity can be controlled by the functions of the mouse. It reacts to the movement of the mouse and the mouse click …

TRANSCODE A textile as an electronic instrument: the artist specifically for this performance created a flexible and modular interface of electronic textile consisting mainly of snap fasteners to make all parts freely movable. CoinB, the artist’s alter-ego, is a version of the artist dressed in pinky and cutty which aesthetically …

TRANSCODE When noise music and classical opera meet: Monica Vlad is an experimental audio/visual artist who creates a noise composition based on opera using a female soprano voice live interpreted by Johanna Falkinger. The structure is based on three different arias sung by her although these arias were not originally …

TRANSCODE A Khipu is a device used in the ancient Inca Empire for the processing and transmission of statistical and narrative information. Linked to textile art, it is a tangible interface encrypted in knots and cords of cotton and wool. This system was widely used throughout the Andean region, until …

TRANSCODE Triality is a cooperative mixed-reality experience presented as the result of a collaboration between students of the Interface Cultures Master Program (University of Art and Design Linz) and the Master Program Software Engineering and Human-Centered Computing (University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Hagenberg). In a mysterious laboratory, three participants …

TRANSCODE Virtual Reality (VR) systems allow the user to experience a sense of presence in a place other than the physical body. VR also allows users to feel like someone else when they take the first-person perspective of another real person or avatar. With the help of VR tools and …

TRANSCODE SELLOUT is a real-time game for two players. It is designed around the concept and dynamics of the Prisoner’s Dilemma. Whether the players will cooperate with each other or sell the other one out is the core mechanic behind each round. In an iterated fashion the game is played …

TRANSCODE The Generative Adversarial Network is a series of products that pay homage to the gadgets that we all buy, own and love: the latest smartphone, wearable, IoT enabled home-automating wiretap. Democratization of technology and information has not been the means of liberation and empowerment as it could have been. …