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New Transmediale director Kristoffer Gansing censors "offensive AR art." The 2012 Transmediale stood under the theme "in/compatible," celebrating 25 years of art interventions and proclaiming in the curatorial statement that: "Contrary to the fear

Tele-Touch explores the notion of human touch and telepresence in a computer networked environment. It consists of a jacket equipped with wireless touch output devices that allow the person wearing the jacket to be touched by visitors to the

When a visitor steps on one of the 32 sensors on the floor, a screen in front of her shows one of four little digital worlds, that are partly controllable by the viewer. Hypothetical creatures, autonomous and life-like, live in these worlds.

"Arabesque" is a kinetic artwork with roots in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Alchemist's Laboratory. A composition of life-sized cast human body parts (incidentally casts of my own body). These translucent entities impaled upon their internal

Turnstile II creates a virtual gateway where an endless realm of content is generated by the live culling of network objects from HTML pages, live chat and email archives. Through a familiar interface of a typewriter printing characters onto the

netomat is a web browser that takes visitors for a ride into an unexplored internet. Unlike traditional web browsers, which retrieve only predefined web content and rely on the model of the page, netomat engages a different internet -- one that is

Peter Weibel is considered to be one of the poineers of interactive, computerbased installations. In this work from the early nineties, the participants are being filmed upon entering a room. They see "their" film on a large screen while there is a

Two video projections are confronted on the same screen. The first shows the bodies of African dancers in exultant movements, gradually moving into a trance. The other presents the State’s armed forces: the worrying and repressive face of the

Two worlds that everything keeps apart are brought together on opposite sides of the same screen. In a narrow street in an Afghan village, men are drinking tea and reading texts. A door is in the centre, opening onto another door in the image on the

Continuum is a mirror that "captures" anything that moves before it. Anything that does not move is not reflected but is lost in the inky blackness of the background of the screen image. Continuum is a "mirror" that "reflects" things as both a