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“Catapulp-Catapuppet” by Gruppo A12.
“NASDAQ Vocal Index” – The graphs of companies listed on the NASDAQ are transformed into music. Computer software converts the graphs to sheets of music, and the scores are presented online on a projection screen. By Ola Pehrson. Video.
»Character Reference« opens January 18 (6-8pm) at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery (New York) presenting works by MTAA, Lee Walton, Marina Zurkow, Julian Opie and Oliver Laric, curated by Caitlin Jones.
»Made In England – A Temple Design For India« is an inflatable temple which the viewer can enter and walk inside. By Tallur L. N..
“Corrosion” is based on eth0, a library that is capable of sniffing a network and could be classified as a hacker tool were it not for the purpose of the library, which is auralization and visualization of underlying network data flow. eth0 allows to use the heartbeat of an underlying network in order to trigger realtime audio and video generation (and possibly a lot more). the video and audio data that is transformed, triggered, altered and spit out by corrosion comes entirely from peer to peer networks. Video: Martin Pichlmair. Audio: Thomas Grill.
»Computers, chairs and table«, »Chair and table« and »Eusebio« taken from the series »Fotogalleriet« (1998) by Marcelo Krasilcic.
Dear Tokyo residents. Aleksandra Domanovic and Oliver Laric of VVORK are moving to Tokyo this month. If you have any recommendations or would like to get in contact drop us a line: mail@vvork.com
»Applied Geometry« (2004) and »The best circular bike ever made« (2003).
»Harness« (2006, A mouse cage mated with a music box. The compulsive energy of a running mouse generates Brahm’s Lullaby) and »Vacancy« (2006, altered toaster) by Robert Wechsler.
»Three Ball Total Equilibrium Tank« by Jeff Koonst and »Methamphetamine« by Damien Horst from the »Saetchi Collection« by Nika Oblak and Primoz Novak.
»Smartist« is a independent mobile robot that replaces an artist. It lives in the exhibition area where it moves freely and and occasionally writes the signatures of Nika Oblak and Primoz Novak on the gallery floor.
»Unique« by Polona Tratnik displays micro-organisms brought by the visitors. Samples from hair, underneath the nails, saliva… are gathered and artificially kept alive in a surogate living enviroment. From the 5th Triennial Of Contemporary Slovenian Art U3.
“Lighttypewriter” – the 264 light bulbs on the building could be controlled by 264 light switches on the street. By Constantin Luser.
“Teleklettergarten” – The facade of the art university in Linz was converted into a climing wall with oversized keyboard keys and buttons as a input interface for a computer. The visitors who participated in Teleklettergarten passed through a trainee programm and where trained as software developers. Through physical commitment the climbers and the programmers collaboratively inputed code into an oversized programming environment. In a week-long performance the collaborators programmed codes, scripts and tools and demonstrated various software functions. A collaboration between Bitnik and the group FOK.