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  • aesthetics
    • acoustic
    • affective
    • anamorphic
    • animated
    • anthropomorph
    • assembled
    • automated
    • autopoietic
    • collaborative
    • contextual
    • cybernetic
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    • intervention
    • mobile
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    • multi-user
    • multiple
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    • panoramatic
    • performative
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    • real-time
    • realistic
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    • ARTS AND VISUAL CULTURE
      • allegory
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        • simulacrum
      • virtuality
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    • BODY AND PSYCHOLOGY
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      • cybersex
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    • HISTORY AND MEMORY
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    • TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
      • ambient intelligence
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      • biocomputer
      • blockchain
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      • development
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      • electricity
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      • nonhuman communication
      • optics
      • product design
      • production
      • robot
      • simulation
      • software manipulations
      • supercomputing
      • technophobia
      • telematics
      • telepresence
  • Technology
    • Display
      • Electronic displays
        • BOOM (Binocular Omni-Orientation Monitor)
        • CAVE (Computered Augmented Virtual Environment)
        • computer monitor
        • dome
        • Electromechanical Display Device
        • Electronic Paper
        • flashlight
        • Head-up Display
        • Headphones
        • HMD (Head-mounted Display)
        • holography
        • laser
        • light-emitting diode
        • lightbox
        • plasma
        • printer
        • projection screen
        • projector
        • robotic
        • speakers
        • VFD (Vacuum Florescent Display)
        • VRD (Virtual Retinal Display)
      • Non-electronic displays
        • body
        • Book
        • easel painting
        • globe
        • house wall
        • inflatable structure
        • mirror
        • paper
        • sculpture
        • shutter glasses
        • sofa
        • Somatosensory System / Tactile Feedback Technology
        • table
    • Hardware
      • camera
      • computer mouse
      • data glove
      • Joystick
      • MAC
      • Mobile Device
      • multi touchscreen
      • plotter
      • scanner
      • touchscreen
      • Video
      • webcam
    • Interface
      • Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC)
      • Biological Sensor
      • biometrics
      • Body sensor
        • Body Tracking
        • brainwave sensor/brain-computer-interface
        • breathing sensor
        • Breathing-Balance-Interface-Vest
        • Endoscope
        • eye scanner
        • facial recognition system
        • Motion Capture
        • positiontracker
        • retina scanner
        • Speech Recognition
        • step sensor
      • camera recording
      • electromagnetism
      • interactive media
        • Auditory User Interface (AUI)
        • Augmented Reality Interfaces
        • breath based communication
        • Internet of Things (IoT)
        • Ludic Interface
        • MR-based (Mixed Reality) Interaction
        • Multi-Modal Interaction
        • tactile user interfaces
        • Tangible Acoustic Interface
        • Tangible User Interface (TUI)
        • Voice User interface
      • Non-electronic interface
        • bike
        • doll
        • furniture
        • plant
      • robotic interfaces
      • Soundgenerating device
        • Audiotape
        • keyboard
        • microphone
        • musical instrument
        • RFID (Radio-frequency Identification)
        • syntheziser
        • telephone
        • Theremin
        • turntable
        • voice analysis
      • virtual balance
    • Software
      • C++
      • CGI/Perl
      • CSS
      • Global Positioning System (GPS)
      • ISDN
      • Java
      • Linux
      • Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
      • periscope
      • PHP
      • RFID (Radio-frequency Identification)
      • SGI Onyx2
      • softimage
      • software interface
      • Video
      • VRML
      • Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)
      • XML
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    Information
    Cite
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    Archive of Digital Art (ADA). “Janet Cardiff - »The Berlin Files«”. https://digitalartarchive.at/database/general/work/the-berlin-files.html (retrieved 2009-28-09). @online{ADAartistprofile, author = {Archive of Digital Art (ADA)}, title = {Janet Cardiff - »The Berlin Files«}, url = {https://digitalartarchive.at/database/general/work/the-berlin-files.html}, urldate = {retrieved 2009-28-09}
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    Descriptions & Essays
    "You're sitting in a bar. You pull out a book that you just bought to look at, a collection of short stories. Flipping through it you stop on a paragraph describing a dark street in Berlin, a woman in a red dress walks out of a doorway towards you_ but someone at the next table is talking. He's telling his friend about a winter field in Canada, about one set of footsteps leading off into the distance. You go back to the book and flip to another section, about a piano player in a large empty apartment. He doesn't know he's playing the final etude to his own demise, the soundtrack for his own death. The bartender puts a new CD on, a Bowie song and a drunk starts singing along to it. An image on the TV above the bar shows a helicopter trying to rescue people caught in frozen water and at that moment you are a child again crossing river with your brothers. You remember the cold water creeping up towards your mouth. As you come out of your reverie you see a woman in the corner of the bar. She stares at her telephone, her face covered in tears, the mascara blackening her eyes. You hear your dog barking outside the bar. It's time to go home. As you walk through the quiet streets a woman in a red dress walks out of a doorway towards you." (Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller) Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller will show a new film entitled "The Berlin Files" in a projection room specially developed for the exhibition space. In previous works, such as "Playhouse", "Muriel Lake Incident", or "The Paradise Institute", Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller have repeatedly examined audiovisual perception and the viewer's illusion. Their films allude to narrative motifs, while the three-dimensional soundtrack, until now heard via headphones, not only involves the viewer in the events of the film, but also makes him a part of the simulated opera-house or movie-theater. At Portikus, for the first time during the course of their work, Cardiff and Miller will not employ headphones, but instead transform the entire space into a site of acoustic and visual projections. Again, Cardiff and Miller succeed in situating the viewer in a simulated reality, while simultaneously confronting him with different levels of reality by means of acoustic disturbances. The border between reality and fiction seems to dissolve, and the perception of the physical space of the exhibition or the virtual space evoked by the projection becomes blurred. In "The Berlin Files", it is initially the simulated presence of the two artists in their studio that seems to dominate as the primary level of perception, but gradually this presence dissolves, and the viewer starts examining to what extent he allows himself to be transported by the images and his own memories. (source: http://www.portikus.de/ArchiveA0116.html)
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