The Panoramic Wifi Camera takes ‘pictures’ of spaces illuminated by wireless radio signals, in much the same way that a traditional camera takes pictures through visible light. The work is a powerful example of how artists are creating new methods of visualising the intangible and atemporal environment which we exist within.
A Parallel Image is an electronic camera obscura. This media-archaeological, interactive sculpture is based on the fictive assumption that the contemporary principle of electronically transmitting moving images, namely by breaking them down into single images and image lines, was never discovered.
The Optofonica Capsule creates a futuristic context for experiencing moving image and sound. This highly technologically augmented audiovisual space suggests a future whereby our existing passive tropes of experiencing moving image and sound, have been upgraded substantially.
The installation features a series of Paparazzi Bots, each a tech-hybrid of camera and cameraman, which subtly stalks exhibition visitors. They seek one thing, which is to photograph these visitors, and make themselves famous.
The Invisible Stain is the third installment of Brazilian artist Alice Miceli’s ongoing Chernobyl Project. For transmediale.10, this third presentation will present a completed negative series from the final, decisive stage of the work.
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.