Insert And Play

TRANSCODE Cassette tape players and slide projectors have long disappeared from the modern home. Many no longer collect bulky VHS tapes and expensive vinyl records and as a result, the interactions associated with these devices have disappeared from daily rituals: the act of insertion, removal, the physical game button, the …

Sausage Face

TRANSCODE Sing along with the never ending sausage song! Thanks to the magic of face-tracking, the seemingly free-floating holographic Sausageface moves its lips and eyebrows exactly like the visitor’s. The repetitive, almost childish sounding jingle lures you to the place where you suddenly become one with the cheesy singing slice …

Meanwhile in China

TRANSCODE Douyin 抖音, internationally known as TikTok, has become one of the world’s most successful apps and a leading platform for creating and sharing short videos. It was developed by Beijing- based Bytedance and is one of the few apps that has been successful outside the big firewall. To comply …

Screenshot TV

TRANSCODE Screenshot TV is an installation that invites visitors to watch a new genre of reality TV. Every few seconds, the TV shows another online screenshot, uploaded to a special website by anonymous people using a screenshot tool, so that the information can be shared by simply sending a URL. …

I Stalk Myself More Than I Should

TRANSCODE You are your number one stalker. I Stalk Myself More Than I Should shows a selection of Instagram Stories that have been documented and archived through the use of screen recordings. The work thus displays an archive of memories designed to disappear from the online platform within 24 hours. …

A Reactive Poetry Machine

TRANSCODE The colourful slides of an old slide projector, the hum of its fan and the monotonous clicking of its feeding mechanism: This visual and acoustic experience is paired with an AI that creates poetry inspired by the images of the projected slides. The training of the AI is based …

Curly Cable

TRANSCODE The kinetic installation Curly Cable celebrates the presence, function, and aesthetics of spiral cables. Coiled cables arranged vertically side by side are alternately stretched by motor in order to be returned to their original contracted position at the next moment. Varying light projections, which meet the cables, enable various …

As Promised

TRANSCODE In Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia Andrei meets and befriends a strange man named Domenico, who is famous in the village for trying to cross through the thermal waters of Bagno Vignoni with a lit candle. He claims that when finally achieving it, he will save the world. Before leaving, Domenico gives …