Simulation of the Installation

projection, 5 channel audio system, golden mirrors,
interface, 1 computer (4x4x2.5m)

Museum Stein
Minoritenplatz 4, 3504 Krems-Stein

Im Neunten Himmel
opening: September 27th 2008, Museum Stein A

We create "Im Neunten Himmel" around the astonishing life of Andreas Koffler, a Jesuit monk who travelled to China as a missionary. Juxtaposed in between the two worlds of the Austrian Baroque and the late Ming era he became a prominent "mandarin" at the court of the Chinese emperor. Fusing by comparison and contrast those two worlds that existed at the same time but far apart, we develop a mental image in motion of a planet still divided but at the brink of coming together. Andreas Koffler stands as a representative of this beginning traversing of times and geographies of modernity.

A 3D-realtime-system (Unity) is used as an artistic tool to create an interactive audiovisual installation. The visitor becomes an active participant who navigates through this "ludic environment," experiencing a journey in which Stein/Krems features as the node between a manifold narrative of peripheries and centres. There is no definite narrative string, nor is there a start or end. The visitor "travels" through the ephemeral sceneries on her own path.

Mirror Cells
Mirror Cells was a feature-project of  
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.

Composition: Peter Szely, Programming: Doron Goldfarb

Acting in Utopia Sep 5 - Nov 11 2007 Landesgalerie Linz, Museumsstr. 14
curated by: Anna Karina Hofbauer & Dieter Buchhart

plastic trade-off

Meta-performative Game in Real Time / Intervention into Global Financial Markets and Exchanges

plastic trade-off is a light sculpture as well as a virtual knowledge space. It 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.

the project by Syl.Eckermann + Gerald Nestler is a permanent installation at:
WORKING_WORLD.NET Living and working in the midst of globalization, Museum Arbeitswelt Steyr, A

RAUMATMEN wet f{r}iction

an audio-visual space-skin, digital video 70'
created for an exhibition on Science Fiction - Kindermuseum ZOOM, Museumsquarter Vienna/ A

The inside skin of a space station is enveloped in large size projections. The space station is not comprised of inflexible, rigid material - it is not hardware but wetware - it is a breathing, living bio-substance - a flexible membrane which moves - future material maybe discovered in an extraterrestrial lab… The exhibition space is thus transformed into a living organism.
An acousmatic and sound-architectural structure intensifies the intended effect of Raumatmen (of a 'breathing of the space'). The sound aura - a matrix of speakers which is installed on the ceiling, walls and floor - allows the space to breathe.

Sound: Peter Szely

reservoir_bots

Game mod for audio/visual live performances in various locations

Resembling a flaneur in an unknown city the bot moves through a "ludic 3d environment" - moved by the hand of the player - robbed of his identity which the player has adopted for herself. It seems as if those she encounters have a life of their own. But this is an illusion - they are caught in loops of movements which stop abruptly and thus destroy the illusion.
The moving flaneur becomes a VJ producing ever new images which with the beat of live-generated sounds melt into an "emersive media environment".

Live Sound by various Artists: Peter Szely, Electric Indigo, Christof Cargnelli

fluID - arena of identities

Game Level ISEA2004 / KIASMA Helsinki / FI

This game is about finding your identity (if you have got one), to change your identity, to steal or borrow another person's identity or to destroy identities.

FEMCITY

a Multi-user Computer Game for Girls Bureau of women's Affairs Vienna / AT

This Game is about careers, lifestyle, dreams and realities of young women.
FemCity is a simulation of a complex social and economic environment, which young women find themselves in, when designing their future. FemCity was developed in collaboration with Edeltraut Hanappi-Egger and Gehard Hanappi and commissioned by the Bureau of women's Affairs Vienna.

EXPOSITUR - Virtual Knowledge Space

a Game Mod as a Virtual Museum KIASMA Helsinki / FI

In constructing a virtual museum we changed, the logical structure and the aesthetics of a museum from scratch. We wanted to build a museum maze, a crossword puzzle of objects and stories, an audio-visual "Undreamed" and a hyper museum based upon a computer game.

PLAN-it !

an Interactive Multisensory Environment Millennium Dome London / GB 2000