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The Trend Is Your Friend

a performative and interactive artistic experiment                  

 

MedienKunstLabor | KUNSTHAUS GRAZ 2009

 

The Trend is your Friend! is an artistic and experimental translation of the market as a model that increasingly interferes with our social environment. The installation takes a close look at economic trends that relate to finance, commodities, fashion, media, consumption, and many other spheres of life.

 

TIYF! is a machine that is constructed from visuals and sound, invites the visitors to participate, and is triggered by robots. The work questions the economic world and the market place—this persistent environment that surrounds us. It asks: How can we influence this environment and what is our role in the "game"? more

 

Idea, Concept, Artwork: Sylvia Eckermann, Concept, Artistic Research: Gerald Nestler, Composition: Peter Szely

 

 

 

 

 

Breathe My Air

Visualising the Invisible in the Social Environment

 

an art project on intellectual and social environments and their relations
in cooperation with Gerald Nestler.

 

The video Breathe My Air Phase I brings together different European voices that speak about Progress, Change, and Utopia in the light of thecontributor's experiences in and with China.It was shown at the Project Launch at CPU:798 art space, Beijing in October 2008 to introduce the project's idea of an exchange between Chinese andWestern proponents of the Arts on these relevant topics that have been shaping the modern world on a global level... more

 

 


 

 

Next show: eARTS SHANGHAI 2010 media art festival
Dec 16 2009 - Jan 8 2010, "Mifan" VENUE_Room 208 Shenzen CN

Nov 8 - 26 2009 "Mifan" organised by ASAP curated by Karel Dudesek
AnniArt Gallery, 798 Dashanzi Art District Beijing CN
2008 project launch at CPU:798 Beijing CN

 

 

 

 

 

In Ninth Heaven | Im Neunten Himmel
or The Far End of Europe

An Interactive Synthetic Scape

 

Museum Stein | Kunstmeile Krems AT
Sept. 2008 — Sept. 2009

 

Fluctuating between the worlds of early Baroque and late Ming/early Qing eras, the project explores a rather brief yet multi-faceted period of enlightened dialogue between Europe and China. Although characterised by a respectful scientific exchange, it took place in a world that was troubled by the Thirty Years' War, Inquisition and Counter-Reformation on the one side, and by the insurgences during the turnover of the dynasties on the other... more

 

3D realtime-system, projection, 5 channel audio system, golden mirrors, interface, computer, size: 4x4x2.5m

 

Sylvia Eckermann: Concept, Installation, Artwork
Gerald Nestler: Concept, Researche, Text, Peter Szely: Composition
Doron Goldfarb: Programming, Josef Wienerroither: additional 3D-Objects
Voiceover: Eduard Wildner, Frederic Lion.

 

 






 

 

 

 

 

 

Spiegelzellen | Mirror Cells 2007

— documentation and movie

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mirror Cells is an interactive installation that turns

around our perception of space and time. The gamers as well as the

visitors are immersed inside an infinitely mirrored acousmatic-visual 3d-world.

 



Mirror Cells was a feature-project of  ars electronica 07

 

 

 

 

 

plastic trade-off

Meta-performative Game in Real Time

Intervention into Global Financial Markets and Exchanges

 

 

 

 

the project by Sylvia Eckermann + Gerald Nestler

is a permanent installation at: WORKING_WORLD.NET Living and working in the midst of globalization,
Museum Arbeitswelt Steyr, A, since 2006

 

plastic trade-off visualizes global financial markets and thus a core element of global economy. The real-time data of specific markets are translated into abstract light flows which reflect this global system in a dynamic work of art. more