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The exhibition proposes to “listen” trees of Babyn Yar, feel the metaphor of Tree as a Capsule of Time, which conveys knowledge from the Past (the ground) to the alive limbs of the Future. The Babyn Yar trees were growing all this time as silent

Interactive computer installation "With the interactive video/computer environment, Body Scanned Architecture, presented at the Venice Biennale, Ruth Schnell explores a classic interface concept between real architecture (from the Hoffmann pavilion)

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

In the age of smart everything, even the personal space of sleep is invaded. The installation consists of a set of six pillows in an immersive environment. Visitors are invited to lay down and nap with a “smart” pillow, attended to by its embedded

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

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

Can we know insects through electronic and artistic interfaces? Do they know us? Can they experience art? Can we develop new relationships with them? I built a miniature museum space and used telepresent technologies to re-scale the situation and to

Video installation Series 'Bags' A text from the sixth book of Metamorphoses runs from the foreground to the background on a three-dimensional "screen" consisting of 39 shopping bags. The tale of the weaving contest between Pallas Athena and

Interactive computer video installation Three doors of the environment 'Tür für Huxley' ('Door for Huxley') simulate the entrance to different realities. The observer has the choice between pure observance of a conserved and continuosly repeating

Laboratory Life (For Oryx and Crake) is a series of over-layered photographs taken at scientific laboratories in Europe ( the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Rome, the Max Planck Institute in Dresden, and a biophysics lab at Imperial