Edible plates by Proef Rotterdam.
Spoons made of broken china by Gesine Hackenberg.
Stamp, cutlery by Tomas Alonso. Recyclable, lightweight, nestable, disposable but reusable cutlery in a unique stamped aluminium design in which the structure becomes the motif.
Vegetable Cutlery and Make/Shift, a shelving system that expands and contracts to fill different size gaps. By Peter Marigold.
Ascendancy of the Illuminati Ducatisti and the book of research.
Coca-Cola Alcohol Distiller and Coca-Cola Alcohol Bottle by Fred Pradeau. A huge amount of coca cola is made to rotten. From this, alcohol is produced, using a machine made out of cooking and plumbing tools. See also Helmut Smits.
»Tokyo Arcade Warriors – Shibuya« is part of an ongoing series of videoportraits of players of video and computer games. It was shot in three different Public Gaming Arcades near Shinjuku/Tokyo. The faces of the players are the only visible evidence of the game being played. Their facial reactions are synced with the sounds emerging from the game consoles.
The film »Brilliant City« was shot from the 34th floor of a residential complex in Shanghai. The film reacts to a particular visual paradigm, which is well known from strategy and simulation computer games (Sim City, The Sims) as the so called God View.It is the distanced perspective usually taken on by city planners, game players or politicians. Both projects by Axel Stockburger.
“Terrain”, a large matrix of 225 electro-mechanical actuators conform a projection surface to match a 3d image/dataset in real-time. Video.
Train is a hyper-narrative that takes place on the physical layout of an HO scale model railroad. Controlled via cell phones, viewers guide the trains around the track, picking up passengers along the way. Video. Works by John Klima.
“The Miniature Long March” by Qin Ga. Long March Space: “Mao’s ‘Long March’ symbolized the deliverance of the Communist ideal to the Chinese proletariat. It is with this symbolism in mind that we now choose to march contemporary art out to China’s peripheral population.”