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  • Forced Leisure -
    A hammock, a symbol of leisure, relaxation and even freedom, is combined with elements of a straitjacket. Textile sensors are woven into the fabric and measure the “degree of relaxation”. Movement and attempts of escape are detected in different
  • Well known in the international art scene for his mechanotronic performances and robotic installations. In his first works he combined such elements as Bodybots, body-controlled robots, Systematugy (interactive narration with computers) and
  • Teresa Wennberg is a painter and a multimedia artist. Beside her painting career, she started making video in 1978 at the Centre Pompidou Paris and is considered a pioneer in video art and computer art. A multidisciplinary background: law,
  • Performers interact with images and sounds and manipulate four mobile projection surfaces, orchestrating a set of changing architectural constructions. Spectators circulate freely like visitors to an installation, accessing multiple points of view
  • The video work stillalive is a commission for the Kunsthaus Graz and the exhibition ‘Faking the Real’. The concept was to produce an artistic edit of a specific three-minute excerpt from John Carpenter’s film ‘They Live’. This approach corresponds
  • Virtual Book -
    Virtual Book : Augmentation of a real book boosted by semantic text analysis. The Virtual Book (2006) The concept of the book as an interactive knowledge structure was inspired by Marvin Minsky's vision from the early 1990s. He said, "Can you
  • Knowbotic Research is a German-Swiss electronic art group, established in 1991. Its members are Yvonne Wilhelm, Christian Hübler and Alexander Tuchacek. They hold a professorship for Art and Media at the University of the Arts in Zurich. Yvonne
  • For the 10th anniversary, almost 1000 entries were submitted to the organising team for the various sections of the festival. In addition to Great Britain and the USA, numerous contributions were sent from New Zealand, Japan, Romania and Brazil.
  • Jaron Lanier, the musician and scientist who coined the term "Virtual Reality" brings the two worlds of his life, music and technology, together in a revolutionary new form of live performance. Jaron's group, Chromatophoria, combines deep use
  • Sympathetic Sentience -
    Sympathetic Sentience Is an interactive sound installation which generates complex patterns of rhythmic sound through the phenomenon of 'emergent complexity'. The original goal was to attempt to realise a project which manifested true