Art

http://www.manifestogames.com/node/2481: Update: RESCHEDULED. Due to a schedule conflict for one of the guests, we’re rescheduling the chat–tentatively for the following week at the same time and day. I’ll update again when the time is nailed down. Life Chat on Manifisto Games about “Are Games Art?” on Wednesday, Oct. 25 with on the subject of games and art with Henry Jenkins, Jesper Juul, Marc LeBlanc, and Eric Zimmerman. Network: irc.freenode.net Channel: #gamesandart Time: 6PM PST, 9PM EST, 2 AM GMT Participants: Henry Jenkins is the Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities. He is the author and/or editor of nine books on various aspects of media and popular culture, including the recently published Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. ...

In the week from the 1st to the 5th of August 2006 I had been to Rovereto (Italy) to exposit the installation reaction machine in MART Museum of Modern Art together with Klaas Jan. The exposition was part of the ParticipART art track during the Participatory Design Conference. Other exhibiting artists were: Natacha Roussel, Mauro Annunziato, Nell Breyer, The Sine Wave Orchestra, Daria Loi, Pekka Ala-Siuru, Victoria Vesna, Martin Mairinger, Peter Edmunds, Gruppo Làbun, Stijn Ossevoort, Susanne Schuricht. for a overview of the works have a look at http://www.participart.org/ ...

In the weekend of 11-12 March 2006 was the Crystalpunk workshop for soft architecture in Utrecht (NL) with a lot of cool speaker: Mario Campanella, Mirjam Struppek, Adam Somlai-Fischer, Pablo Miranda Carranza, Nicolas Nova, Jelle Feringa and me with z25.org :). I presented the RFID installation Dat-a, that I developed together with z25.org. The slides from my presentation can be found here: dat-a_pres.pdf To get a good overview of the lectures, have a look at Nicolas Blog.

Reaction Machine presented at the Profile Intermedia 2005 In the weekend from 09 - 11 december ‘05 my installation Reaction Machine was presented at the Profile Intermedia in Bremen, Germany. Profile intermedia is a international conference on the crossover in design, art, architecture, film, video, photography, digital media, sonic art, revolution, visual effects, music, fashion, protest and performance. Here some links of interesting artists and designers that presented their works: Boyle Family (GB) is a family of collaborative artists based in London. They uses all different kinds of media, like performances, film, sound, photography, drawing, assemblage, painting, sculbtures,… Michael Saup (GER) “Maybe on the other side of the World lies the answer to your own local situation” Wally Olins (GB) Andy Symanowski (GB) from Aardman, key animator of “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit” Troika Design Studio (GB/F/GER) is a multi-disciplinary art an design studio with a background in graphic and product design Olaf Arndt & Andrea Sick, TROIA (GER) about “Demons and non-lethal strategies”

Dat-a is an art installation made by me together with z25.org for ‚Soiree des Ateliers‘ at Huis aan de Werf, Utrecht Netherlands. Subject of the installation is Radio Frequency Identification chip (RFID) and the consequences when this new technology will be implemented in everyday life. With this installation z25.org is hoping to create a discussion about RFID and the influence of this technology on who we are. Central question is how do we experience our identity when our movement through space is continuously monitored and when this collected data about where we are and where we have been is used to make assumptions about who we are. All the receiving and sending devices were custom made by z25.org. ...

The installation Reaction Machine plays with the intimate field of tension between the people. Balance of power, personal input and connecting old and new technology are all part of this experience. Reaction Machine is an open system, in which the visitor‘s reaction determines the art work. In the Reaction Machine different kinds of technologies are combined in one object, a television screen is combined with a old rusty gear wheel and a handle, all together connected to a computer with a web cam, microphone and speakers. The object looks unfamiliar, but the interface is clear: a chair in front of it to sit, a television screen to watch and a handle to turn. When a curios visitor sits down and starts to explore the use of the machine, he will ...