Markus Kühn has a vast background in music management and distribution. After his management activities at Universal Records, he shifted into the independent music sector. Since 2004 he is CEO of the broadcasting service Motor FM in Berlin.
Barbara Lippe (Dr Babsi), an Austrian renaissance girl of the digital era is also dubbed – when sporting her turquoise headdress – as the “Björk of Virtual Worlds”.
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...
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.
Artzilla is dedicated to the development of experimental browser software. The platform collects and exhibits creative works, shares code and tutorials, and publishes news from the scene.
Since 2003 Feral Trade (import-export) has been trading small-scale releases of migrant grocery products, sourced directly from their suppliers and circulated along social routes...
Jens Wunderling is a media artist with a background in graphic design. His projects explore human-computer interactivity beyond standard user interfaces. His latest projects incorporate social media platforms such as Twitter.
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.