Sylvia Eckermann

Aktuell / Upcoming

18 May – 29 June, 2013 | Opening: 17th May 20h

GLITCH

UNSER SCHREIBZEUG ARBEITET MIT AN UNSEREN GEDANKEN

Kunstraum Innsbruck Maria-Theresien-Straße 34, Arkadenhof, 6020 Innsbruck

23 May – 15 July , 2013 | Opening: 23th May 19h

LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY DELETING …

curated by: Isin Önol

GPL CONTEMPORARY Galerie Peithner-Lichtenfels, Sonnenfelsgasse 6, 1010 Vienna

Works

Probabilis

6. Dez 2012 – 16. Feb 2013

kunstraum BERNSTEINER

Sylvia Eckermanns Ausstellung Probabilis geht der Frage nach der Auseinandersetzung zwischen Wahrscheinlichkeit und Kontingenz nach. Während die Wahrscheinlichkeit ihren Blick in die Vergangenheit richtet, um eine Zukunft beschreiben zu können, trifft uns die Kontingenz unvermittelt und unvorhergesehen. Die in der Ausstellung zu sehenden Licht- und Textarbeiten, computergenerierten Bildwelten, Skulpturen und Objekte, die Eckermann eigens für den kunstraum BERNSTEINER entwickelt, ordnet sie zu einer inszenierten Raumkomposition an. Die einzelnen Objekte bezeichnet sie als freeze objects, die gleichsam ein im Moment eingefrorenes Ereignis manifestieren. Die Ausstellung interessiert sich für das Ereignis, das uns wie ein Schlag treffen kann, alles und nichts verändern kann, sich uns entzieht und zu einem Ort der absoluten Kontingenz werden kann (nach Quentin Meillassoux).

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Ausstellungsansicht, Foto: Andreas Kattner

Crystal Math.

1-channel video, 5.1 sound, 5000m nylon-wire

paraflows, das weisse haus, Argentinierstr. 11, Vienna / 13.9. - 20.10. 2012 Eröffnung: 13. 9. 2012 19h

kunstraum BERNSTEINER. im Basement, Vienna / 29.2. - 25.4. 2012

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With thousands of meters of nylon threat Sylvia Eckermann produced a spider web that serves as the captivating projection screen for her "expressive verbal image" (Sabine Dreher) with which she visualizes the replacement of human actors by algorithms in finance. Referencing the fiber optic networks encroaching below ground level that connect the powerhouses of finance via inconspicuous Carrier Hotels, Crystal Math addresses the issue that human beings have become the resource of derivative risk potentials. Here, the net does not serve as a social realm of communication but rather as a trap in which pray gets caught, as the mathematics of probability calculation have turned into the drug of an oracle which subjects the manifold options of the future to its very own fictions. The voice of Simon Streather enunciates these bottomless pits put into words by Gerald Nestler, in whose lyrics the market as a being breeds our "recombinant social DNA."

Oh baby! How you nourish me!

Sound by Szely

Sylvia Eckermann: Telluric Force

Telluric Force

Computer Animation, 2.0 Sound by Szely, Plasma-Bildschirm, Rahmen, 90 x 150 cm

PARKFAIR 2012 ARTE NOAH

September 19–23, 2012, Vienna, Austria

Parkdeck Ebene 3A / Stadion Center, Olympiaplatz 2 / 1020 Vienna, Austria

Foto:Georg K.

March 11 — December 31 2012

http://www.sound-of-sirens.net

a social platform / video portal

March 11th 2012 is the anniversary of the earthquake, the tsunami and the nuclear disaster having hit northeastern Japan. For this reason, the two artists Edgar Honetschläger and Sylvia Eckermann, in collaboration with Yukika Kudo, Peter Scharmüller and Ken Ishimoto have created a video platform on the Internet, entitled SOS = Sound of Sirens. The platform urges people worldwide to reflect on the disaster and its aftermath in cinematic form. SOS will be taking stock of how a democratic society deals with an environmental catastrophe; it investigates social change and political motivations after an environmental disaster, reflects, processes and moulds them into various forms of artistic expression.

SOS focuses on how the individual, the group, the government, the world community respond to a sudden event of incomprehensible dimension and SOS gives victims a forum to deal with their anger, their sorrow and their fear. For nine months the video platform Sound of Sirens will serve as a social network that enables and supports intercontinental flow of information outside of the official national and international media. It will enhance a global debate fed by the individual commitment of people from all parts of the world, it will build bridges over the continental limits and languages. SOS transforms consternation into action by encouraging net-users to make and upload films concerning 3/11 and thereby become part of an open discourse.

kunstraum BERNSTEINER, Schiffamtsgasse 11, 1020 Vienna / December 2010 — January 2011 Naked Eye 3-channel video installation, sound, text, projection objects, carpet > documentation

	Sylvia Eckermann: naked eye, 3 channel videoinstallation, installation view
	aesthetics is politics / dream a dreamer’s dream experimental film, video art, electronic art, film-film, video installation, painting, electronic painting…there are heaps more, a never ending row of vague definitions of what the arts are doing these days. well - are they doing anything? i mean in terms of relevance for the world, for the societies, for the environment, for the human race, for all those wonderful things that go beyond human existence? i mean non-human beings, plants, animals, well – spirits, and all of those unnamable things that share the world with us. l’art pour l’art? humans for humans? ain’t we beautiful? us! me! under the grip of philosophy we are, under the theory - our little theory of the perception of the world. our! who makes the theory? do we? vanity. the picture talks. it talks more than ever before. we think that all of those who lived before us saw and knew less in comparison to us. surely everybody believed so of their own times. image pollution – why add? naked eye shows why. it combines all the genres listed in the first sentence. digital dream world, yes - except in this case it is the beholder who creates the images. sylvia eckermann offers. what a selection! szely’s music compliments it – more – it enhances it and nonetheless stands for itself. naked eye is art at its best: it doesn’t explain anything, it does not even tell a story; it will tell many stories in your brain - your stories. it does what the arts are meant to be doing: it draws you in, it makes you feel, it unites and does not separate what always has been one and was falsely set apart since the enlightenment: reason and feeling. naked eye lets you dream – not the way we’ve been taught to through the picture’s supremacy, no, it lets you dream a dream you surely have never had. © edgar honetschläger, filmmaker/artist

November 2010

Reigen

video, site-specific installation, Dorotheum Wien 2010
Installation zur Eröffnung der Vienna Art Week 2010

Sylvia Eckermann: Reigen, videostill

MedienKunstLabor, KUNSTHAUS GRAZ / September — November 2009

The Trend Is Your Friend

a performative and interactive artistic experiment

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"?

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

2008 — 2011

Breathe My Air

— a paradoxical conversation piece

3-channel video, duration: 01:58:14
Languages: English, German and Chinese / Subtitles: English and Chinese
Filmed at locations in Beijing, Chengdu, Shanghai, Western Sichuan,

Northern Yunnan, Krems, Stopfenreuther Au and Vienna.

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Breathe My Air is a cinematic conversation between participants from the worlds of art and curating, filmmaking, literature and poetry, philosophy and theory living in China and Europe.

Museum Stein, Kunstmeile Krems AT / September 2008 — September 2009

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

An Interactive Synthetic Scape

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(3D realtime-system, projection, 5 channel audio system, golden mirrors, interface, computer, size: 4 x 4 x 2.5m)

ars electronica 2007, Landesgalerie Linz

Spiegelzellen | Mirror Cells

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Unreal Mod, 3 Projections, 8 channel audio-system, mirrors, wooden construction, size: 10x5x5 meters

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 07

permanent installation since 2006, Museum Arbeitswelt Steyr

plastic trade-off

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Meta-performative Game in Real Time

Intervention into Global Financial Markets and Exchanges

by Sylvia Eckermann + Gerald Nestler

WORKING_WORLD.NET Living and working in the midst of globalization,
Museum Arbeitswelt Steyr, A

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


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