With a considerable amount of irony Ho Tzu-Nyen, one of the most renowned Singapurian filmmakers, borrows the image of Newton's apple as a metaphor for the futile challenge artists face in terms of achieving a creative inspiration (or rather, one after another) of their own accord.
With this project the Australian games theorist Mez Breeze examines how processes of knowledge production and entertainment models change under the influence of artificially generated stimuli. The work belongs to the “Augmentology 1[L]0[L]1_project“ which addresses how information is absorbed within artificial environments making its insights accessible via a link-in system
Day after day the artist Christin Lahr transfers 1 Euro Cent to the German Federal Ministry of Finance. Each time she consecutively copies 108 characters of Karl Marx' "CAPITAL - A Critique of Political Economy" into the 'reason for payment' box of the transfer form---All the way until the German Federal Bank will have the complete work of text on their bank account.
This performative-acoustic installation by the Indonesian art collective HONF (House of Natural Fibre) is a response to the religiously motivated, national prohibition of alcoholic drinks in public space. This project highlights not only the often fatal consequences of illegal and unsanitarily produced methanol but moreover points to risk-free fermentation methods of easily available tropical fruits.
At transmediale.10 the transnational open source team FLOSS Manuals led by Adam Hyde (nz) created one of their legendary Book Sprints (Collaborative Futures), producing a complete publication from scratch in only five days. After this testing of the Booki platform they have now been nominated with Booki itself -- an extensive online platform allowing anyone to create books independently and collaboratively.
Evan Roth (us) is another name you might remember from transmediale.10 as well as a diverse range of projects worldwide. Then nominated for the transmediale Award as one of the F.A.T. Lab members, Roth is now nominated with this solo-project---a software allowing graffiti artists to archive, analyse and process their bodily writing gestures.
The Berlin collective Telekommunisten has created a microblogging platform based, at its core, on a protocol from the 1970s. Thimbl intends to provide us with a single, multipoint web hosting service instead of us having to surf between a variety of social networks, email servers, website hosts etc.
The American artist Mark Shepard has created a navigation-app which doesn't only lead us the way to our chosen destination but in fact rouses us from our daily routines---En route we're invited to complete sometimes surprising tasks and thus to explore and experience our urban surroundings in new and astounding ways.
Les Liens Invisibles, an Italian based collective comprised of Clemente Pestelli and Gionatan Quintini created the first social media platform allowing us to leave networks like Facebook & Co per digital "suicide" while moreover being enabled to decide ourselves what we want to happen with our data.
This interactive sound installation by Christopher Warnow and Daniel Franke is more than just an interpretation of a composition by Rutger Zuydervelt. An interface that reacts to the audiences' body movements, this work immerses the viewer by superimposing digital and architectural spaces. For each one of us a different, individual and fluid visualisation appears onscreen.
Wikipedia Art is a conceptual art work composed on Wikipedia. The ongoing composition and performance of Wikipedia Art is intended to point to the 'invisible authors and authorities' of Wikipedia, and by extension the Internet, as well as the site's extant criticisms: bias, consensus over credentials, reliability, accuracy and vandalism.
With her poetic manifesto Brazilian artist Vanessa Ramos-Velasquez transfers ideas around cultural cannibalism and anthropophagic practices coined by her countryman Oswald de Andrade's in his text "Manifesto Antropófago“ from 1928 into the present digital age---For in today's world, it is the virtual world which poses the new frontier making everyone a potential coloniser.
In this essay the American media theorist Jordan Crandall explores new approaches to analyze the calculating techniques of tracking technologies. Crandall posits "program" as his key analytical and structural principle to determine the new hybrids these algorithmically augmented technologies promote.
The collaboration between artist/researchers Garnet Hertz and Jussi Parikka seeks to open up the term 'media archaeology' in order to use it as an art practice to excavate bodies of memory held not only by the human mind but also especially by the media themselves. Thus turning to objects, chemicals and electronic circuits, Hertz and Parikka operate in close vicinity to such practices as DIY, circuit bending or hardware hacking.
A film by British artist duo Mirza/Butler following a series of visits to Karachi, Pakistan: subjective impressions and experiences regarding the collaboration with many different local professionals as well as a critique of the complex role of international and local media as crucial ideological mediators.
A technological composition project by Canadian artist duo [The User] (Emmanuel Madan / Thomas McIntosh) in which the mundane ticking of a clock is transformed into the source of complex acoustic structures in homage to Hungarian composer György Ligeti's Poème Symphonique.
A new kind of domestic robots invented by the british art collective Auger-Loizeau & Zivanovic Material Beliefs (Jimmy Loizeau / James Auger / Alexandar Zivanovic): bizzare carnivorous hybrids between machine and living organism feeding on small flies.
A glowing 4m sphere of hundreds of energy saving light bulbs created by artist Wang Yuyang (cn): A poetic allusion to the changing roles of technology and environment, nature and artificiality as well as the, since 1969, still unresolved claiming of the moon between East and West.
An online work by Aaron Koblin and Daniel Massey (us) whose title refers to the song line 'bicycle built for two' from the well-known Daisy Bell: Based on a distributed system of 2000 human voices Bicycle Built For Two Thousand is a reconstruction and cover version of the very first song in history ever synthetically sung by a computer (in 1962).
The American art and design collective Sosolimited (Justin Manor / Eric Gunther / John Rothenberg) has been nominated with their performance project ReConstitution, a live remix of broadcast television, and a format originally configured for the 2008 presidential elections.
Michelle Teran's (ca) tour through the Spanish town Murcia on three levels at once: by bus, on Google Earth and YouTube. The search for places and authors of various YouTube videos shot in town - an intimate encounter between videomakers and audience, the overlapping of the real and the virtual, of past and present.
An audiovisual installation by the artist Félix Luque Sánchez (es). A peculiar, geometric object releasing a code of light and sound: synthetically generated images destabilise the viewers' faith in their own perception.
Founded in 2007 by Evan Roth and James Powderly, and grown by 17 new members since, the F.A.T. network is as a loose online collective working across several continents, and with a great amount of humour, on free software and other exciting projects supporting open values through the use of open licenses.
The Laboratory Planet is a periodic journal of philosophy, science and critical writing on technology, discussing geostrategic and tactical media as well as speculative issues lurking behind the ambiguous headlines of the mainstream press.
Overbug is a music-performance tool designed to compose minimal, dance and pop music. By arranging looping sound patterns, called 'Bugsounds', the program creates complex, polyrhythmic compositions.
This interactive multimedia installation consists of a two-channel projection and shows infrared images of the North Sea as a post-apocalyptic landscape that the observer can only see by using a night-vision device.
The telephone-installation is a memorial to the more than 3 million people who have perished in the complex wars that have gone on in the Congo since 1998, often referred to as the 'Coltan Wars'. The ore coltan is used as the raw material for the metal tantalum, which is an essential component of mobile phones and computers.
Nitta’s project takes current green trends to the extreme. The Extreme Green Guerillas are a network of amateur self-sustaining people who have shortened their lifespan through the ultimate green lifestyle.
Reynolds’s video installation Six Apartments is a poetic narration of resignation and decline which documents the life of six people in their apartments. The inhabitants live isolated, unaware of each other, without drama – they eat, sleep, watch television – even though their lives are overshadowed by mass media generated problems of the larger world and the upcoming ecological crisis.
The interactive sound performance is about the nature of rituals, power and control. It uses fire from a regular lighter to subvert patterns of rhythm, thus using technologically mediated computer sound to exorcise the sound as a spiritual strategy.