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"The Way" is a 3-D computer animation combined with live video. Depicted are three runners followed by a camera down a foggy street in a small German village. To visualize "The Way", I've inverted the common system of the central perspective.

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

Animal experimentation is a common practice for people. We have used the standard metaphor of a mouse in a labyrinth to study the mechanics of how reality of shaped. The mouse is rigidly influenced by its own unrealized reality. We observe how it

"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

BERLIN-CYBER CITY - VIRTUAL WALKS THROUGH REUNITED BERLIN (1989–90) Berlin-Cyber City was created in response to the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989. The work reveals the historical upheaval through virtual walks and initiates a