March 24, 2008
FILE Rio People
I haven’t been posting anything lately. Sorry. I have been busy traveling and planning exhibitions for the fall.
But I went to the FILE festival in Rio de Janeiro. And I met a lot of nice people there: All the folks behind FILE – Fabiana, Paula and Ricardo. At the symposium I met Lars Lundehave Hansen (seems strange to travel 11.000 km to meet a guy that lives 115 km from my home). I also was lucky to meet David Jhave Johnston, who is making a film about God in his bathroom. And Myron Campbell who showed his beautiful and scary stories.
But I went to the FILE festival in Rio de Janeiro. And I met a lot of nice people there: All the folks behind FILE – Fabiana, Paula and Ricardo. At the symposium I met Lars Lundehave Hansen (seems strange to travel 11.000 km to meet a guy that lives 115 km from my home). I also was lucky to meet David Jhave Johnston, who is making a film about God in his bathroom. And Myron Campbell who showed his beautiful and scary stories.
Labels: artist, Brazil, exhibition, festival, FILE, people, person, Rio de Janeiro, symposium
October 20, 2007
YOU_ser exhibition at ZKM
ZKM in
Labels: art, audiobar, exhibition, installation
October 14, 2007
TimeSquare video exhibition
I spend a great night Friday. We opened the "TimeSquare" exhbition of videos shown in display windows around Solbjerg Square in Copenhagen (curated by yours truely). The four artist - Marius Watz, Lisa Strömbeck, Erik Olofsen and Junebum Park - spoke at the library and showed some of their other works.
(The image is from the video "In memory of all those who work without ever getting a reward II" by Lisa Strömbeck)
Labels: exhibition, video
April 29, 2007
Festival of Research Opening
We got it all together before the Research Festival opened. Here the Danish minister of research, Mr. Helge Sander is at the bar. (Photo courtesy of Festival of Research)
Labels: art, audiobar, bar, exhibition, festival, installation
April 11, 2007
Festival of Research
I am building a smaller and more portable version of the Hørbar / Audiobar. This one is made of acrylics and aluminum. And the software is running on a single mediacenter computer. This version is going to be presented at the starting event of the Festival of Research in Denmark. We are a small team of 3 persons working hard to get it finished before April 26th. At the moment the trickiest part is getting hold of the RFID-tags. The Danish supplier would not sell the 160 tags. Their minimum order is 5.000 pcs. So now we are trying to get then from USA.
Labels: art, bar, exhibition, installation, physical computing
March 24, 2007
MAXXI Exhibition
I'm showing my work "A Reactive Self Portrait" at Net Space exhibition at the Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo in Rome, Italy. The museum chose to put a screendump of my piece on their invitations for the opening. And it looks great!
Labels: exhibition, museum
December 14, 2006
Electrohype in Lund, Sweden
I’m showing my piece ”Crime Scene” at the fourth Electrohype biennial. This time it’s in Lunds konsthall in Sweden. As always I’m impressed by the job Electrohype has done. Basically the organization consists of only 2 persons: Anna and Lars. As if the exhibition isn’t enough of a job, they have arranged another exhibition about electronic art in public space at The Museum of Sketches (still in the city of Lund) at the same time.
Labels: art, exhibition, installation
December 11, 2006
Article, Norway
The small organization IO Lab presented their first biannual in November. I stayed some days in the city of Stavanger. Good projects and some excellent talkers. But sadly very few guests. I really hope IO Lab has the spirit and energy to host the next biannual in 2008.
Labels: art, exhibition
November 1, 2006
Setting up in Aarhus
I'm setting up my piece "POM" in Aarhus (second largest city in Denmark). It's seem waiting is always an important factor in installing works at museums. In picture you can see works by some of the other artists in the show: Synaptic Caguamas by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Corporate Fallout Detector by James Patten, Police State by Jonah Brucker-Cohen, and Mememe by Tine Bech, Sam Woolf and Dave Lawerence.
Labels: art, exhibition, installation, physical computing
October 3, 2006
Potato test setup
I have been showing the installation POM in 3 different countries now. As the installation is partially power by a galvanic potato battery, I have observed huge differences in how potatoes behave across Europe. Now I run a test – daily measuring the voltage at these potatoes.
Labels: exhibition, installation, physical computing
September 7, 2006
Robotic Chair
I didn't get to see this chair perform until Wednesday evening. But this robotic chair by Raffaello D'Andrea, Max Dean and Matt Donovan is another impressive piece at the Ars Electronica. The chair falls apart and with the help of a camera, the chair can reassemble its dispersed legs and back into a complete chair. You can see a short video on Raffaellos website
Labels: art, exhibition, installation, performance
September 5, 2006
Hello World at Ars Electronica
The best piece at the Ars Electronica is "Hello World" by Yunchul Kim. It's a physical computer memory. The installations stores a short text message as sound in a long system of tubes.
Labels: art, exhibition, installation
August 18, 2006
Notch Festival
In 2003 I met Lei Yang at the Ars Electronica in Linz. At the moment he is visiting Copenhagen and I spend some great evenings with him. He is doing a tremendous job in arranging the Notch festival in China. Sadly I won’t have the time – or the money – to go to China in October this year.Labels: art, exhibition
Plex
Bookstore/CD-shop/showroom/performance-space/workshop Plex opened last night. It is a rebirth of the “Second Opera” space.
Labels: art, exhibition
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