Last year at september Me and Andrea Suter started a location-based experiment with the name Take me Places. Our basic idea was:
TAKE ME PLACES is an art project, which plays with the notions of territory and dislocation, orientation and the loss of such. TAKE ME PLACES will travel around the world until July 2012. At the end of its travels the photographs as well as the added artefacts will be exhibited. TAKE ME PLACES plays with public spaces, is participatory, involves a random the public, is dependent upon it.
We decided to place two suitcases in public spaces. Each suitcase were equipped with a photocamera, kind of a map, kind of a container, and instructions. One suitcase represented an anolog version (Analog camera, paper maps, suitcase box for additional artworks) and a digital version (digital camera, digital map with QR Code, USB Stick as a container for additional digital artworks). People were supposed to take the suitcase with them and add some personal value to it. Read more...
In the end of november I was a part of the Sound & Vision 4 concert for Music and Media Technology at the Anton Bruckner University.The Sound & Vision concert serie allows young musician and audio-visual artists to present their new experimental artworks and installations.
Poster
Programme #1
Programme #2
In my installation "Sound Drawings" the musicians can use their instruments for drawing an abstract painting. The pitch and the volume of their instruments paint the canvas with an harmonious-sensitive-line-based brush (a digital ribbon brush). The installation tries to put the aesthetic experience of music and visual on an equipollent level. Usually , the music defines the visual experience (see the battle between DJs and VJs) or vice versa. The realtime visual feedback gives the musicians an additional channel for improving and influencing their improvised perfomance. The musicians are oriented towards the visual aesthetics of their drawing and their bandmates. New sounds and musical aesthetics can emerge.
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Ende November nahm ich an dem Sound & Vision 4 Konzert für Musik und Medientechnologie an der Anton Bruckner Universität mit meiner Installation "Sound Drawings" teil. Die Sound & Vision Konzertreihe gibt Musikern und Audio-visuellen Programmieren die Möglichkeit ihre neuen experiementellen Klangwelten und Visualisierungen der Öffentlichkeit zu präsentieren.
Plakat
Programm Flyer Seite 1
Programm Flyer Seite 2
Bei meiner Installation "Sound Drawings" zeichnen Musiker mit Hilfe ihrer Instrumente ein abstraktes Farbenbild von harmonisch schwingenden Linien. Die Tonhöhe und die Lautstärke lässt den digitalen Pinsel an verschiedenen Positionen an der Leinwand gleiten. Die Installation versucht die ästhetischen Erfahrungen zwischen musikalischer und visueller Wahrnehmung auf ein gleichberechtigtes Level zuheben. Normalerweise gibt die Musik den Ton für die Visualisierung, oder und umgehkehrt. Durch das visuelle in Echtzeit generierte Feedback entsteht für die Musiker eine neue Improvisationserfahrungen. Diese neue Erfahrung beeinflusst die Interaktion zwischen den Musikern zusätzlich, und verändert somit die musikalische Ästhetik. Read more...
Fangen wir mit den harten Fakten an. Das Buch ist ziemlich großformatig und hat ein schönes stabiles Hardcover. Selten so ein gutes haptisches Erlebnis mit einem Fachbuch empfunden. Auch die verschiedenen Druck- und Papiermethoden in diesem Buch sind sehr gut ausgewählt. Die Projektsammlung ist im hochqualitativen Druck eingebunden, dagegen ist der normale Inhalt des Buches mit einem einfachen Farbdruck eingebunden. Die inhaltliche Struktur des Buches, das Buchdesign, selbst, sowie die zum Buch dazugehörige Website sind perfekt und sehr gut benutzbar umgesetzt. Ein durchaus 100% gelungenes Design und Konzept. Diese Qualität schlägt sich mit einer Preisspanne von 60-75 Euro ziemlich ins Budget nieder. Doch ist jeden Euro wert! Meine Begründungen folgen in einem Kapitel-basiertem Feedback und einem Schlussfazit:
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In my class PublicSpaces 2.0 from the space & design strategies department we discussed the connections between social media and public spaces. Also some design theory aspects were included into the discussion. In my case I introduced the lifestyle of hermits. Hermits create a kind of subspaces in urban or nature environments. These subspaces have got their own system and rules. Our current culture is characterized by fast technical developments and accelerated lifestyles. That includes travelling over big distances, moving often, huge information perception via social media services, etc. In some life periods these circumstances are not healthy. They cause long-term stress symptoms, losing creativity and so on. In this case the lifestyle of hermits can give an inspiration for creating a subspace in our urban environment. A subspace, which minimize these aspects of acceleration and creating an appropriate environment for each individual. In my presentation and in my paper I don't say that the solitary lifestyle of the hermits is optimal. A good environment has to provide also a stable social enviromnent with friends and partners. I am just using the hermit lifestyle for some design approaches and for getting inspired.
Furthermore, I describe in my paper how people become unconsciously and consciously an hermit. Becoming unconsciously a hermit could lead to some conflicts in our society. The key aspects of Reduction and Filtering in designing Intertactive Media play an important role for solving this issues. More detailed explanations of my thoughts are written down in my PDF paper.
PDF PAPER: Hermits in our digital Age
Links of my presentation
A small summary of my Twitter messages from March - June 2010:
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Categories: Design, english, Games, Generative Art, Interaction, mobile, Programming, Technologie Tags: art, cool stuff, Design, flash, flex, Games, image processing, information design, inspiration, netzwerk, physical computing, processing, Programming, research, streaming, web
I am glad to hear that my and Hennings artwork 100101 aka. "Binary Visualizer" is exhibited on the Incuratable Art exhibition at La Bellevilloise in Paris. If you are in Paris from 7 to 16 April 2010, visit the exhibition and have fun with the Art Collider Project 😉
Vom 2. bis zum 7. Februar fand das Medienfestival Transmediale in Berlin statt. Das Festival stand ganz unter dem Motto "Futurity Now", sprich was ist und wie gestalten wir unsere Zukunft. Gemäß aller Vorträge und Diskussionsrunden soll dabei das Internet und die kreative Klasse die wichtigsten Rollen für unsere Zukunft übernehmen. Vom meinem subjektiven Gefühl her stammten die meisten Besucher auch aus dieser sogenannten kreativen Klasse. An sich eine gute Sache, nur wandelte sich genau dieses Publikum in einigen Diskussionsrunden zu einer wahren Selbstbeweihräucherung, wie toll und kreativ und innovativ man doch sei. Besonders negativ ist mir die Diskussion am Ende zum Thema Creativity as an Economic Resource aufgefallen. Nun gut davon wollte ich mich mir freilich nicht die Stimmung vermiesen lassen und besuchte die Transmediale Ausstellung. Viele Kunstwerke gab es zwar nicht zu sehen, aber das war für mich schon O.K., denn das A Parallel Image, die Paparazzi Bots und der Artvertiser haben mich ziemlich überzeugt und waren sicherlich auch einer der Highlights der Austellung.
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A small summary of my Twitter messages from November - December 2009:
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Categories: Allgemein, english, Games, Interaction, mobile, Programming, Technologie Tags: art, cool stuff, Design, flash, flex, Games, inspiration, Interaction, interface design, Programming, research, tools
During the first semester of my study Interface Culture at the University of Art in Linz I had to write some papers about interactive art. My first papers dealt with the history of interactive art and continued with some different art movements in this domain. In some cases I am more or less satisfied with my papers. Anyway, I think every 2page long paper contains some interesting points for Interaction Designer, Web Designer, Web Developer, Web Artists, Computer Scientists etc.. That is the reason why I want to share my written work with you.
Please consider that all my papers here were an assignment for the master classes of Interactive Art by Christa Sommerer. My papers don't meet the requirements of a scientific work despite the fact that the format seems to be scientific. All my texts represent partly more my own thoughts on the different art topics, so please interpret my papers as a short essay or summary. My thoughts are mainly based on the first and second references, which are mentioned at the end of each paper. I highly recommend to read these references, because they are a very good collection for delivering an introduction in the domain of interactive art. Thanks Christa for this great collection of references and the introduction!
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