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This installation consists of two vintage Bakelite telephones from the 1950ies. They are placed in viewing distance to eachother. When visitors pick up their telephone receivers, dial a number and talk into their mouthpieces, their voices are

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

... 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...

... facade with 16 screens reacting to passerby’s positions, distance and movements © 2007, Laurent Mignonneau & Christa Sommerer This interactive façade was designed by Mignonneau and Sommerer for the City of Science in Braunschweig, Germany, which is the...

...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

... 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...

... touch, a gentle breeze and some humidity, which all feel like a "virtual embrace" from the remote user in Paris. (Christa SOMMERER & Laurent MIGNONNEAU)

... Web" presents a novel system for intuitive, immersive and entertaining information creation and retrieval. CHRISTA SOMMERER & LAURENT MIGNONNEAU