October 20, 2007
YOU_ser exhibition at ZKM
ZKM in
Labels: art, audiobar, exhibition, installation
May 10, 2007
Guide for using Windows-based computers in art pieces
During the last few years I have made several art installations using computers with Windows OS. If you plan to set up a piece in a gallery and have it running unattended, I have several hints for you. Download the guidelines as PDF
Labels: guide, installation, os, programming, windows
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
January 4, 2007
Building the Audiobar/Hørbar
I'm currently building my "Hørbar/Audiobar" installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denmark. It's a bar with several hundred RFID-tagged bottles. When you place a selection of bottles on the table, the installation will select a suitable piece of audio from the huge collection of the museum. The bar is planned to open on Friday 12th of January (2007).
Labels: art, installation, physical computing
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
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
September 1, 2006
Setting up at Gallery Reuten, Amsterdam
I have spent the last few days in Amsterdam.
Dutch artist Geert Dekker curated a show and I’m setting up an installation involving a webserver. This - of course - is asking for trouble: Trying to get bypass the firewalls and stuff at the gallery (without destroying everything for everybody else).
But finally it worked – thanks to good advice from Geert and the hospitality of Antoinette Reuten. If you visit Amsterdam during the exhibition (until October 7th) please drop by: Gallery Reuten, Fokker Simonszstraat 49.
Labels: art, installation, physical computing
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