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Art
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08.31.10Back from BrazilWOW. I´m back from brazil since three weeks but thats the first day I really get into reflecting and posting about FILE festival and the SMSlingshot project in Brazil. First: it was an amazing trip. We met so many new friends and saw even more interesting projects from all over the world that it´s hard to list everyone. FILE festival especially the awarded projects and the exhibited pieces at FIESP/SESI theatre are worth talking about. You can get the full report at the InterfaceBlog by Form+Zweck. It´s so much, that it might take while to cover all the projects. FILE festival was ...
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07.19.10kicking the post out of modernFlights go on wednesday, nothing is packed, everything is dismantled and a slight feeling of stress is coming up. But as always everything will work fine and we´ll be standing at Tegel with three realtime working SMSlingshots ready to be shown at the museum of modern art Sao Paulo, a perfectly worked out keynote lecture for the FILE symposium and enough sound, books and happy vibes to stand the long flight to brazil. As you might now allready know, we are invited to show our SMSlingshot project during the FILE electronic art fesitval in Sao Paulo Brazil. We will show it ...
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04.21.10…Grab what they canThe SMSlingshot won the second prize at the Art of Engineering Award. We´ve been to Hannover Industry fair where the award was handed over. Strange situation, strange show, strange people but now we can go on in redesigning the installation and performance tools. Thanks to the LabBinaer guys for having so much fun anyway.
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04.08.10Urban InterventionsDie Gestalten Publishers released a book on private projects in public space and feature the SMSlingshot I realized with the VR/Urban team the last year. It´s cool to see how things evolve and an audience is appreciating our work. We are positioned right between GRL and Haque design+research, some of my all time heroes. I want to thank Matthias Hübner, editor of the book how was a good partner in making it all so good in the end. Thanks man! Go and get the book: It´s very inspiring! Currently we work on a redesign of the SMSlingshot to be fully equipped ...
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02.09.10…it´s a competitive worldSomehow the SMSlingshot has been selected as one of the winners at the Art of Engineering Award. Beside 20 other projects the SMSlingshot is exhibited till the 15th of february at the "Deutsche Technik Museum" in Berlin.
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01.13.10TransmedialeNext to the all of my time munching preparings for the TEI conference I currently work on a concept for a workshop taking place on the 5th of february at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin during the Transmediale Festival. With the Workshop we will try to find new ways of reclaiming digital augmented public advertising screens and discuss possibilities of a democratic access to urban media. Because this will be way to much for me to lift all by myself, Tobias Fischer, brother from another mother, will lead and monitor the workshop with me. It will be ...
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09.12.09VR/Urban in Riga tonightTonight we will show the SMSlingshot project at the kim? gallery in Riga/Latvia. We arrived yesterday, had a first testscreening + some serious drinking and prepare now everything for the night. Still quiet a lot of software struggles between the wires and a bit physical de-bugging has to be done. For more informations check the VR/URBAN page which is now more a construction than a website but offers all informations you may need. Beside that you can follow the nights performance on twitter. All message sendt with the SMSlingshot will be posted in realtimeover the kim account. Start will be ...
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08.27.09white nightsVR/Urban, the media intervention collective I am part of, will present a further development of last years spread gun installation at the white nights festival in Riga / Latvia. Currently we work hard at hardware, software and interaction tasks to have everything running at the 12.9.2009. More informations soon here!
