Keyword Index
Selected keyword: media archaeology
Work: Be Now Here
Artist: Naimark, Michael
Comment: Be Now Here is an installation about landscape and public places. Visitors gain a strong sense of place by wearing 3-D glasses and stepping into an immersive virtual environment. The imagery is of...
Work: Corpocinema
Artist: Shaw, Jeffrey
Comment: The Corpocinema ('corporeal cinema') was an expanded cinema environment presented in a series of open-air performances in Rotterdam and Amsterdam in 1967. The basic structure was a large...
Work: Escape
Artist: Sommerer / Mignonneau, (collective)
Comment: 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...
Work: Excavate
Artist: Sommerer / Mignonneau, (collective)
Comment: developed for The View Contemporary Art Space Swizerland
EXCAVATE consists of a magic lantern from the 1920ies that was transformed into an interactive installation. The project was developed for a...
Work: Golem
Artist: Biggs, Simon
Comment: Digital video installation
2 monitors and 12 channel audio, colour, sound
audio by Hans Peter Kuhn
Golem was a two channel video installation where the two monitors were arranged like the...
Work: House
Artist: Stanza
Comment: “House” by Stanza, is a dynamic public sculpture viewable over the internet. House is not a mute memorial to a related past but a live embodiment of change and renewal. House describes the space, a...
Work: Life Writer
Artist: Sommerer / Mignonneau, (collective)
Comment: Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignoneau - Lifewriter (2006)
Work: M2
Artist: Salter, Christopher
Comment: Overall, the event is cyclical; however, the groups spend variable amounts of time going through the chambers. The immersion room is the only area of the environment where visitors are allotted a...
Work: Magic Eye - Dissolving Borders
Artist: Sommerer / Mignonneau, (collective)
Comment: 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...
Work: Noise and Smoke
Artist: Sommerer / Mignonneau, (collective)
Comment: 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...
Work: PIXELSHADE (I & II)
Artist: Random International
Comment: PIXELSHADE (I & II)
The ‘PixelShades’ are part of a series of projects that were
developed for the occasion of showing with Ingo Maurer in Milan &
New York in 2006 and 2007. They are designed to...
Work: SeeBanff!
Artist: Naimark, Michael
Comment: SEE BANFF! is an interactive stereoscopic installation. It bears a strong - and intentional - resemblance to an Edison kinetoscope, which made its public debut one hundred years ago in April 1894. It...
Work: Sustainable Cinema No. 1: The Image Mill
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: The Image Mill is a public sculpture that uses the force and beauty of falling water as the energy to create a moving picture.
As water falls over the giant wheel, a transmission assembly causes two...
Work: Sustainable Cinema No. 2: Lenticular Bicycle
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: Lenticular Bicycle is the first sculpture in the series to use human energy. The pedal-powered movie references the ingenuity and resourcefulness of the hacked bicycles that are roughly converted for...
Work: Sustainable Cinema No. 3: Praxinoscope Windmill
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: The 19th century Praxinoscope consisted of a circular beveled mirror reflecting a series of animation frames. When the device is spun, a moving image appears on the mirror. Using wind as the power...
Work: Sustainable Cinema No. 4: Shadow Play
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: The silhouettes of the ancient art of Shadow Play are achieved by light penetrating a translucent screen, and this sculpture uses the rotation of the windmill as the power to generate the backlight...
Work: Sustainable Cinema No. 5: Dual Windmill
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: The Dual is an optical illusion in which two disks rotate in opposite directions; the front disk is black with slits that act as a shutter, the rear disk contains the animation frames. When the disks...
Work: The Parallel Dimension
Artist: Wennberg, Teresa
Comment: In her VR piece, The Parallel Dimension, Teresa Wennberg based her work concept on a realistic form language combined with highly sophisticated texture maps. There is a clear relation to her earlier...
