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. more...
RE: is a 360 projection-mapping installation that uses mirrors to allow a projector to project on its own surface. The mirrors bounce the projections back onto their source. Virtual pixels become points of augmentation in actual space. The reflected projection makes a mixed reality appear and disappear. In most cases the projector has a functional role in a video-installation; the projector in RE: functions as a symbol for both sender and receiver of the medium light. more...
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. more...
audioswap5 is a prank and ongoing performance on the popular video sharing website YouTube, situating JODI’s action in the context of internet folklore. With their literal act of transferring content from a digital back to an analogue medium, from YouTube to vinyl records and back, the artists Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans raise a discussion about copyright, re-use and remix, copy and original. more...
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. more...
For the ppl of Iran - #iranelection RT is an investigation of the transformative capacities of online social networks in politics and society. Out of the hundreds of thousands of tweets about the Iran election crisis (June 2009) Govcom.org has generated a comprehensible account of what has been happening on the ground as well as online.
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. more...
