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.
Mushon Zer-Aviv is a designer, an educator and a media activist based in NY & Tel Aviv. His work involves media in public space and public space in media. He explores the borders of collaborative models as they are redrawn through politics, design and networks. Mushon is an honorary resident at Eyebeam.org and has been teaching at NYU, Parsons and Bezalel. He blogs at Mushon.com.