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Box I/IIArtist: Ruth SchnellComment:

In Origins and Futures, pyrite, a mineral commonly known as “fool’s gold” glimmers with novelty and seduction. Its crystalline structure and reflecting light attracts the viewer’s eye without hesitation. The piece is based on A.G. Cairns-Smith’s...

Video installation [English title, 'co-distortion'] In the installation 'Co-Verzerrung', the classical game of anamorphosis is transmuted into its own readable universe by means of electronic media. The video projection on the floor shows a...

Multimedia environment with performative inserts 'COMBATscience' takes the life stories of the German scientist and Nobel Prize winner Friedrich Haber (1868–1934) and his wife, the chemist Clara Immerwahr (1870–1915), as motifs for the development of...

Mixed reality installation 'COMBATscience Augmented' reimagines the 2008 multimedia environment 'COMBATscience', realised in cooperation with Cathrin Pichler in the Volkstheater in Vienna, and transforms it into another sensory setting. The life...

Stage environment (after Douglas R Hofstadter: Gödel, Escher, Bach) [English title, The MU Puzzle] A media environment was integrated into the stage design of 'Mu-Rätsel', a theatrical production by Hubsi Kramar, shown in the Schauspielhaus Graz as...

Intervention at the media facade of the HVB at Potsdamer Platz (SPOTS light- and media facade) as part of the exhibition Salon du Monde, Berlin (Germany). Between 2006 and 2008, the SPOT light and media facade on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin was the...

Der andere BeobachterArtist: Ruth SchnellComment:

Dead Presidents, deceased dictators, passed poets and reigning sovereigns – they watch us daily, as we swap goods for labor-power, as we sell commodities and buy resources, as we hawk dues and invest in securities, as we barter mining rights for...

Videotape [English title, The dancing and the dead] If YOU, yes YOU, the one I'm addressing, have already photographed corpses and the pried-open skull, that is even now beautiful picturedance of the corpseshots (the camera is moved) a dancer (static...