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  • Tangible Biofeedback Communication Device Users at the Ars Electronica are provided with specially equipped "Mobile Feelings" phone devices that resemble organic or bodily shapes. These devices host miniature bio-sensors and actuators that capture
  • ... new water garden images as their composition reflects the visitors' amount of interaction with the real plants. Christa Sommerer is an internationally renowned media artist working in the field of interactive computer installation. She currently holds...
  • ...Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignoneau - Lifewriter (2006)
  • ... of the observer to produce continuously changing three dimensional abstract and organic growing forms. © 2005, Christa SOMMERER & Laurent MIGNONNEAU
  • ...Escape © 2012, Laurent MIGNONNEAU & Christa SOMMERER developed for The View Contemporary Art Space Swizerland The installation "Escape" deals with the issue of flight attempt. It was originally developed as site specific installation in the civilian airraid shelter in...
  • ... The project was developed for a military shelter from the cold war in the area of Salenstein, Switzerland as part of Sommerer and Mignonneau’s solo show at the The View Contemporary Art Space. Visitors to the wet and humid cave received the EXCAVATE...
  • 2002/03 tangible communication device "Mobile Feelings" is an artistic project that explores the ambivalence of sharing personal information with an anonymous audience. Instead of communication via voice or images to people we know, "Mobile
  • ... compared to traditional types of building surfaces. As a team of two media artists (Laurent Mignonneau and Christa Sommerer) and an architect (Michael Shamiyeh) we investigated the potential of modern media facades as membranes. In 2008 we...
  • The Value of Art are interactive paintings dealing with the economy of attention and value creation in the art world. When we look at prices of artworks at auctions, they often seem incomprehensible. Competing art collectors betting against each
  • The project “Magic Eye-Dissolving Borders” is based on the dichotomy between a positivistic participatory communication artwork and the awareness that communication per se can be superfluous and vain. “Magic Eye-Dissolving Borders” aims to challenge