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  • Four Stories with a Twist is an algorithmically generated ‘music video’ with an original music score and script. The script is based on Albert Camus’ The Stranger and takes place in contemporary Paris. The music was written for a jazz ensemble and
  • "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.
  • Avatar -
    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 -
    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
  • "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
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    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
  • 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
  • HOME OF THE BRAIN (1990-91) - PHILOSOPHICAL DIALOGUES IN VIRTUAL SPACE Created between 1989 and 1991, HOME OF THE BRAIN by Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss is considered to be one of the first pieces of Virtual Reality in the world to make
  • 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