Meessen’s work is set in Chandigarh, the paragon of the modernist city planned by Le Corbusier in the 1950's as a symbol of the new, progressive nation of India that had just emerged from its colonial past. more...
Four speakers report about an accident which occurred a year before at Praterstern. For three weeks Mina Lunzer’s radio play Syjettes was installed inside a publicly accessible car, which had been driven into a facade at Praterstern. Together with samples of the noise of machines and people screaming three of these witness accounts were subsequently used as audio tracks of the film version. more...
Neuropower is a manipulation in the literal sense of the word. Departing from recent insights of brain research, the trained biologist Warren Neidich searches for strategies to manipulate the process of ongoing cerebral reconstruction. more...
Albeit being currently subjected to heavy criticism, international capitalism still remains intact for lack of alternatives. Before this background Daniela Plewe’s artistic research Transactional Arts seems to come at the right moment. Transactional Arts declare the exchange of values and the formation of social contracts works of art. more...
With There Must Be An Angel, David Link re-vamped one of the first computer programmes ever, the programme Loveletters (1952) by one of Alan Turing’s colleagues Christopher Strachey. By convention Joseph Weizenbaum’s programme ELIZA (1966) is considered the first example of computer-generated text. One of Link’s achievements is to have advanced this premiere by 10 years. more...
Longplayer is a one thousand year long musical composition. It began playing at midnight on the 31st of December 1999, and will continue to play without repetition until the last moment of 2999, at which point it will complete its cycle and begin again... more...
Default to Public is a project dealing with the discrepancy between people's feeling of privacy on the web and the physical world. It consists of an ongoing series of objects and interventions linking the physical world to the online world in unexpected and narrative ways to create awareness for self-exposure... more...
For transmediale.10, F.A.T. Lab will develop FuckGoogle, a collection of browser add-ons, open source software, theoretical musings and direct actions aimed at creating an awareness of the role Google plays in our daily lives. more...
