»Mercury« 
Light Box
Light Box
© Banz & Bowinkel, DAM Gallery Berlin; VR installation
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VR installation for HTC Vive, PC, Plexiglas, 3D printed porcelain Hand with a button, 3D printed porcelain pedestal for Arduino, 2 web cameras, monitor, anodized aluminium tubes, cables
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Friedemann & Giulia Banz & Bowinkel 21-07-2019
In the VR Experience
Mercury (2016), artist duo Banz & Bowinkel relocate the viewer on an archipelago connected by footbridges. Elements of nature, culture or technology intertwine into a surreal terrain in which known physical laws are overridden.
Both worlds are interconnected via interfaces such as a webcam and a 3D printed porcelain button.
In their work, the artists focus on the human fascination with development, permeation and visualization of so-called reality.
This includes the fusion of man with his tool—the computer, which has increasingly become a multifunctional prosthesis (or extension) of our society and
the individual. It has proven to be extremely effective at representing reality, as VR simulates a credible alternative to analog, visible world for the eyes: a suggested space where one seems “actually” to be located. Text by the HeK Team
Friedemann & Giulia Banz & Bowinkel: Mercury, 21-07-2019, in: Archive of Digital Art In the VR Experience
Mercury (2016), artist duo Banz & Bowinkel relocate the viewer on an archipelago connected by footbridges. Elements of nature, culture or technology intertwine into a surreal terrain in which known physical laws are overridden.
Both worlds are interconnected via interfaces such as a webcam and a 3D printed porcelain button.
In their work, the artists focus on the human fascination with development, permeation and visualization of so-called reality.
This includes the fusion of man with his tool—the computer, which has increasingly become a multifunctional prosthesis (or extension) of our society and
the individual. It has proven to be extremely effective at representing reality, as VR simulates a credible alternative to analog, visible world for the eyes: a suggested space where one seems “actually” to be located. Text by the HeK Team
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