»Berlin – Paris – Berlin (Travel Agency)« from 1997 is based on the sale of travels as art objects (with lower tax than in normal travel agencies), made possible by selling the travels together with certificates. By Jens Haaning.
»The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly« (3 Rek-O-Cut turntables, wood, aluminum, Hardware, Mixer, Amplifier, Speakers, 3 Ennio Morricone LPs) from 2006 and »Kraftwerk« (3 2055 Kenwood Turntables, mixer, speakers, Kraftwerk record albums) from 2005 by Sean Duffy.
“Intercom” – intervention on loudspeaker of a tramway station in Vienna. By Leopold Kessler.
»Tempest 1« and »Quantum 1«. These photographs are long exposures taken while playing video war games of the 80’s created by Atari, Centuri and Taito. By Rosemarie Fiore.
»Good-Time Mix Machine: Scrambler Drawings« also by Rosemarie Fiore. A connected gas generator and air compressor to buckets of paint and secured into the seats of a Scrambler amusement park ride. Once the ride is in motion, paint is sprayed out of the benches onto vinyl tarps placed underneath. The result is a series of enormous hypocycloid designs which recorded the hidden patterns created by the ride as it turned. Video.
“Untitled (Masking tape)”, “Pencils”, “Chair”,
“Bubble machine” and “Graffiti printer” by Ariel Schlesinger.
“Neverland“. Michael Jackson’s eyes from his “Live from the Neverland Ranch” broadcast 1993.
“Nostalgia is Fear“. An artificial snow machine randomly activates with or without the viewer standing in the headlights of the car. Works by Jordan Wolfson.
A fast rotatign LCD-monitor generates three dimensional phantom images which can be observed from all sides, without the aid of special glasses or the like. The image shown is a simple vector movie based on the novel »Flatlands« by E. A. Abbot, in which a square living in a two dimensional world receives a visit from a ball. This Spatial Vision Device is called »Hanoscop« in tribute to an inventor, Mr. Hanisch, who patented a machine based on similar principles in 1966
»The Flying Carpet« is a hovercraft powered by a leafblower.
The propeller of a marine outboard engine has been replaced by wheels, which make the »Independent Trailer« an autonomous vehicle.
»Spleen« is a freeze-frame explosion, an autopsy on motor and chassis that encapsulates the utopian fantasy of the overhauled scooter, driving off into the sunset.
»Das Schaukelhaus«.
A »Bonanzarad« has this name only in German speaking Europe. Teenagers, who invented it in the 60s in Long Beach and built it out of junk, never had the intention of constructing something faster or better than existing bikes, rather it was a pre-teen, Pop era status symbol. The many details and saddle seat evoked the feeling of riding a horse or an Easy Rider motorcycle. A playing card mounted in the wheel spokes created a motor-like noise, just as here, the chainsaw is used constructively. Through an alteration to the chain on the rear wheel, the vision is obtained, and the Wannabe‘s dream is realized…
By pedaling, electricity is generated that powers the motor for an electric wheelchair, that makes the »Healed Home Exercise Bike« move. The tachometer indicates the phantom-speed.
By controlling the suction of 35 burning cigarettes the »Cigarette Display« device can display simple graphics, letters and symbols. All projects by David Moises.
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