The Long Conversion is a world première especially crafted for transmediale.10 by transmediale Award nominees Sosolimited. The piece exists alongside the extended experimental discussion Futurity Long Conversation happening simultaneously in the HKW Auditorium.
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.
