* 2001
http://www.fursr.com
//////////fur//// develops art entertainment interfaces for multidimensional multiuser involvement: software-programs in mechatronic artefacts that create dynamic action-spaces for two or more participants. //////////fur////'s guiding idea is the alternative interface which goes beyond providing solely a visual navigation, manual control and massive single-user isolation. The members of //////////fur////: Roman Kirschner. Made his first physical experiments in 1975. He will always be happy and grateful that his brother showed him videogames back home in Vienna, Austria where he also attended University before his studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Volker Morawe. Born in 1970 in the north of Germany, grown up in an sheltered small town close to the city of Bremen which is famous for its coffee and beer production. Passing through several schools, job training as space electronics technician, participant of second-chance education, hit producer, design student, from 1999 to 2004 student at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Major field of study: multisensoric interfaces in game context. (http://www.datenpumpe.com) Tilman Reiff. born 1971 in Duesseldorf, Germany, spent his childhood in the fatherly EDP laboratory and on offroad bicycles in the construction sites of Ratingen-Homberg. After a rebellious school carreer he left Munich and studied computer science and media at the university of applied sciences in Furtwangen with a focus on interaction design. In the postgraduate program at the Academy of Media Arts he met the other members and they became //////////fur////. (http://www.re-source.com)
2004 CYNETart_04award / for His Master's Voice in the catagory realtime processing
2003 Main Price of the International Media Art Award / in the interactive division for PainStation
2002 Honorary Mention at the Ars Electronica Linz / category Interactive art for PainStation
2002 Excellence Prize of the 6th CGArts Media Arts Festival Tokyo / for His Master's Voice
2001 Founded by Roman Kirschner, Volker Morawe and Tilman Reiff
Works
- »ASCII_Fur_Engine« 2002
- »SoundSlam« 2002
- »PainStation« 2001
- »His Master's Voice« 2001
- »sensegenerator« 1999