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The photos are overlaps of avatars (images used in chat everyone chooses to represent themselves) of people i met chatting. I’ve chosen the virtual world of chat as a meeting place par excellence of contemporary, where everyone can put on fleeting

Feeding Consciousness takes inspiration from the fabled tower of Babel, when a united and ambitious people having attempted to reach for the stars, were confounded by God, their previously common language made incoherent, forcing them to scatter

In Rigid Waves, the acoustic mirroring of Narcissus and Echo is transformed into a visual form. Approaching the mirror, the viewer is confronted with a reflection that does not correspond to normal perception. Only an illusionary visual echo of

"PERFORMING DATA" INTERVIEW WITH MONIKA FLEISCHMANN & WOLFGANG STRAUSS, BY MICHAL CHACINSKI 2011 The interview (20:21) took place during the solo exhibition "Performing Data" by Monika Fleischmann & Wolfgang Strauss in the historic building of the

ECULTURE FACTORY 2005 A temporary Laboratory for Digital Culture and Interactive Media directed by Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss, was funded by the EU, the Bremen Senate and Fraunhofer IAIS (May 2005 – May 2008). The objective was to

BIRLINGHOVEN CASTLE AI: IMAGE SYNTHESIS WITH CONNECTION MACHINE CM-5 In the early 1990s, AI image generation was an exciting field. At the GMD - National Research Center for Information Technology, we used the Thinking Machines’ CM-5, a parallel

PONTSCREEN : MINORITY REPORT STYLE INTERFACE 2003 PointScreen is an interface for touchless control of a screen. Inspired by the Theremin, the first electric musical instrument that can be played without touch, we have developed a digital technology

HOME OF THE BRAIN (1989-91) - PHILOSOPHERS' HOUSES Created between 1989 and 1991 by Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss, Home of the Brain is one of the first Virtual Reality (VR) artworks to incorporate a data glove and a head-mounted display

DIGITAL SPARKS : STUDENT CONTEST 2001 - 2008 The "Digital Sparks Matrix" is an interface for browsing all of the projects submitted to the " Digital Sparks" student competitions between 2001 and 2008 funded by the German Ministry for Research and

A live performance and ‘game’ interface, which sought to provoke and subvert audience experiences and expectations of power, pleasure and control in the interactive environment. This performance was developed in collaboration with Nuno Lacerdo in