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March 11 to July 11 2012

 


 

 

Sound of Sirens SOS
http://www.sound-of-sirens.net

 

a social platform / video portal

 Sound of Sirens
 

March 11th 2012 will be 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 will give victims a forum to deal with their anger, their sorrow and their fear. For four 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 will transform consternation into action by encouraging net-users to make and upload films concerning 3/11 and thereby become part of an open discourse.

 

 

 

 

 

 

February 29 – April 25 2012

 

Crystal Math.

 

kunstraum BERNSTEINER. im Basement, Schiffamtsgasse 11, 1020 Vienna

 

 

  
 

Sylvia Eckermann Crystal Math.


video installation by Sylvia Eckermann
lyrics: Gerald Nestler
sound: Szely, voice: Simon Streather

 

Installed in the basement of the kunstraum BERNSTEINER, the net is addressed as a persuasive trap rather than a communication tool.
Crystal Math explicitly refers to trading and the market as a "being" (see quote Knorr Cetina): Mathematical models and processes (algorithms) not only make up 80 per cent of transactions in Western financial markets today, decision-making itself is sourced out to them as well. What we could therefore call a quantitative turn in finance is here interpreted as a growing dependence, if not addiction, to mathematics. The notion of axiomatic truth expressed in mathematical formulations is becoming a 'divinatory science' unfolding in a bottomless pit of split seconds.

 

Sylvia Eckermann: Crystal Math, 2012, installation view, photo: Michael Goldgruber

 

Im Basement des kunstraum BERNSTEINER installiert, wird das Netz als Raum thematisiert, in dem nicht kommuniziert wird, sondern eingefangen. Mathematische Modelle und Prozesse (Algorithmen) stellen heute 80% der Handelsbewegungen westlicher Finanzmärkte. Die Abhängigkeit von algorithmisch-mathematischen Modellen zur Erzeugung finanzieller Gewinne und der Durchsetzung eines utopisch-technologischen Wahrheitsbegriffs, der sich im Preis ausdrückt, erzeugen Zusammenbrüche und kataklytische Momente, in welchen die viel beschworenen Trends zu Abgründen nicht nur ökonomischer Art führen können. In the course of the exhibition: ON PURPOSE Gerald Nestler

  
 

 

 

 

 

1 Dec 2010 – 22 Jan 2011

 

Naked Eye

 

kunstraum BERNSTEINER, Schiffamtsgasse 11, 1020 Vienna

 

  

Sylvia Eckermann

Sylvia Eckermann: naked eye, installation view
 


 
video-documentation Sylvia Eckermann    about Sylvia Eckermann

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

 

 

 

 

16. - 27 Nov 2010

 

Reigen

 

"Reigen" digitales Video, site-specific installation, Dorotheum Wien 2010
Installation zur Eröffnung der Vienna Art Week 2010

 

 

  


Sylvia Eckermann: Reigen, videostills

 

 

 

 

 

26. 9. - 8. 11. 2009

 

The Trend Is Your FriendSylvia Eckermann

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"? moreSylvia Eckermann

 

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

 

 

  

Sylvia Eckermann
The Trend Is Your Friend, installation view

 

 

 

 

Breathe My AirSylvia Eckermann

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... moreSylvia Eckermann

 

 
Venues:

Sep 2011, Four Zero Space, Hangzhou in cooperation with Shanghai eARTS, CN. Curated by Li Zhenhua
Dec 16 2009 - Jan 8 2010, "Mifan" VENUE_Room 208 Shenzen CNSylvia Eckermann

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 HimmelSylvia Eckermann
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... moreSylvia Eckermann

 

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

Sylvia Eckermann

 

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 movieSylvia Eckermann

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 Sylvia Eckermann

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. moreSylvia Eckermann