"DIGITAL TRACES"
Opening: 25.06.2009 // 19:00
Exhibition Duration: June 26 – July 15, 2009
Opening Hours: Tue - Sun, 11:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Location: Vordere Zollamtstraße 3, Room EG11, A-1030 Vienna
As part of the annual exhibition of the “Angewandte”, which this year bears the title “THE ESSENCE 2009”, the Digital Art Department will be presenting the diploma work of its students from the 2009 summer semester.
The ten works selected are representative prototypes for differing artistic approaches and medial-aesthetic realisation. At the same time, they also exemplify the diversity of the fields of production and research within the digital arts sphere, which are developed and taught at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
The range of works on display incorporates interactive installations and video sculptures, GAMEArt, Internet and webcam projects, and kinetic objects.
They are the result of an artistic analysis of the effects of the information technology related changes in our perception and concept of reality in the age of the digital code.
Participants
Stefan Fahrngruber
Gottfried Haider
Raoul Haspel
Korinna Lindinger
Georg Novotny
Laura Russo
Laura Skocek
Julia Staudach
Corinne Studer
Ilknur Yalvac
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Stefan Farngruber
"TechnoTaktil"
Interactive Installation
2009
Techno Tactil presents an alternative for perceiving digital content differently. The user touches a 12 x 15mm large surface with his/her fingers that changes form while displaying a fragment of a projected digital image. Dual axis mount makes it possible to explore digital images with this variable relief surface.
Biography:
born 1982 in Vienna, technical studies in Mechatronics, bachelor course at the Vienna University of Technology, 2005-2009 master’s course in Digital Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna under Peter Weibel, Tom Fürstner, Ruth Schnell and Virgil Widrich. Diploma in June 2009.
Artistic focus on experimental video and animation, interactive installations, sculptures, robots and interfaces, which have the core topic of interaction and communications with the computer and the effects of digital media on human behaviour.
Exhibition participations (extract):
Digital Traces/THE ESSENCE, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Vienna 2009.
(mis)used media, exhibition of the Digital Art Department, Vienna 2007;
Website:
http://v3d.at/technotaktil/
Gottfried Haider
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2009
Interactive Installation
When the viewer walks towards the large monitor mounted on the wall, the static image awaiting him/her begins to turn into a flow of images. The viewer sees an imaginary space that can be compared to filmic space, only the frames here are a succession of photos from flickr, which are serially aligned by a generative algorithm. The viewer can modulate the image sequence by moving away or closer to the monitor.
Biography:
Studies in Digital Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Diploma in June 2009). Focus on urban soundscapes and the algorithmic acquisition of space.
Exhibition participations (extract)
Digital Traces/ THE ESSENCE, University of Applied Arts Vienna 2009.
Coded Cultures Festival, Vienna 2009,
Dadamachinima, Amsterdam 2007,
Transmediale 08, Berlin 2008,
Mobile Music Workshop, Amsterdam 2007.
(mis)used media, exhibition of the Digital Art Departement, Vienna 2007;
Website:
http://gottfriedhaider.com/frames
Korinna Lindinger
“Unrund”
Self-moving porcelain objects, ø 14-16cm
2009
Porcelain robots roll through the space. The mechanical swinging movements of the motor inside the robots and the irregular porcelain spheres produce patterns of movements and sound. These designed random movements make the objects seem as if they had a life of their own.
Biography:
born1982
Studies in Sociology at the Universities of Vienna and Istanbul. Studies in Digital Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna under Peter Weibel, Tom Fürstner, Ruth Schnell, Virgil Widrich. Diploma in June 2009.
Artistic focus: “Art creates bodies in order to understand them. The social sciences miss the social body. My installations and participative media projects, interactive and sculptural works embody social structures and the self.” (Korinna Lindinger)
Exhibition participations including:
Digital Traces/ THE ESSENCE, Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien 2009;
Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts, Istanbul;
Beit Barudi, Damaskus;
Kunsthalle Mücsarnok, Budapest;
Kunstraum Innsbruck;
Kunsthalle Wien Project Space;
Website:
http://www.maschen.at/unrund
Georg Novotny
“Traffic”
Objekt, Installation
2009
In the installation traffic, viewers of an Internet porno platform are observed anonymously. Audio data of currently watched video clips are made available by an object to a new public. By transposing the private sphere into public space, the singular quality of an online event turns into a collective experience. Physical desire is expressed through objects and the viewer is stimulated into listening: Peer to public instead of peer to peer.
Biography:
born 1976
Prior to being a student, active as a technical worker in the plastics industry.
2003-2009 studies in Digital Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna under Peter Weibel, Tom Fürstner, Ruth Schnell, Virgil Widrich. Residence in Rotterdam 2007-2008. Diploma in June 2009.
Artistic focus: Experimental videos, happenings, objects, installations.
Screenings and exhibition participations including:
Digital Traces/THE ESSENCE, Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien 2009; Kriterion Filmtheater, Amsterdam 2008;
(mis)used media, Ausstellung der Abteilung Digitale Kunst, Wien 2007,
Showroomcinema , Sheffield 2005
Millenaris, Budapest 2005
Freiraum/quartier21, Wien 2004
Kunsthalle Wien Project Space, Wien 2003
Website:
www.georgnovotny.biz
Laura Russo
“Fata Morgana”
Installation
2009
The installation reproduces a mirage with technological means. Analogue photographs, as “memory storage media” of my personal recollections, form the basic material for the projection. Changes in the layers of air alter visual perception, leading to unforseeable invariables in a processual remembrance.
Biography:
born 1985
2004 graduation in Multimedia from a Higher College of Graphic Design. 2004-2009 studies in Digital Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna under Peter Weibel, Tom Fürstner, Ruth Schnell, Virgil Widrich. Diploma in June 2009.
Artistic focus on video and installations with optics as a central theme.
Participation in the digital image space of the COMBATscience, media collage by Ruth Schnell and Cathrin Pichler, Volkstheater 2008, as well as the M.u.R., video from Christian Thüringer, fmx09 accreditation Eyes and Ears of Europe Junior Showcase, Stuttgart 2009.
Exhibition participations (extract):
Digital Traces/THE ESSENCE, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Vienna 2009.
(mis)used media, exhibition of the Digital Art Department, Vienna 2007.
Website:
www.laurarusso.at
Laura Skocek
"Sleeping Bed – A rhythmic study"
Kinetic object
2009
An intricate web placed on a cot receives impulses from a network of Nitinol wire and cable ties passing through it. The series of arrhythmic stimuli is derived from data recorded during the phases between sleep and wakefulness.
Biography:
*1984, Amstetten
Studies in Digital Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, (2003 - 2009), Diploma June 2009.
Interested in digital scanning techniques, sampling, virtual camera pans through composite visual worlds, game art, kinetic art and the set-up of installations and performances as a result of research in the fields of interspecies relationships and self-monitoring.
Recent exhibitions & participations:
Digital Traces/THE ESSENCE, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Vienna 2009,
Tricky Women Film Festival, Vienna 2009
MAK Night - female:pressure dvd1, Vienna 2008,
Paraflows UN SPACE, Contemporary Art Tower, MAK, Vienna 2007
(mis)used media – exhibition of the Digital Art department, Vienna 2007
Website:
http://realag.sonance.net/sleepingbed/
Julia Staudach
“Welt-Zeit-Mosaik”
Installation with digital images
2009
The mosaic is comprised of images sent to the Net in real time from several hundred webcams located all over the world. Combined together into a mosaic, a continually changing image results due to the light conditions (day/dusk/night) at the location of the cameras.
Biography:
born 1984
2004-2009 Studies in Digital Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna under Peter Weibel, Tom Fürstner, Ruth Schnell, Virgil Widrich (Diploma in June 2009)
Artistic focus: media-critical short videos and time-based artworks that deal with the manipulation of time, space and temporal processes.
2007-2008: one year as a freelance employee with Puls4, first as a video journalist and then as a programme developer.
Exhibition participations (extract):
Digital Traces/THE ESSENCE, University of Applied Arts Vienna, 2009
(mis)used media, exhibition of the Digital Art Department, Vienna 2007
Digital Art, exhibition in the Freiraum/quartier21, Vienna 2006
Ratsch Fump Donk, digital art exhibition in the Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna 2005
Insert coin, exhibition in the Freiraum/quartier21, Vienna 2005
Websites:
http://www.digitalekunst.ac.at/diplome
http://juliastaudach.com/weltzeitmosaik
Corinne Studer
"SecondSquat"
Spatial Utopia for a 3D-Internet
Game Art, interactive installation
2009
SecondSquat is an interactive installation that reflects, using the example of "Second Life", spatial planning and the possibilities of movement within a three-dimensional Internet. Drawing from these experiences SecondSquat projects a new spatial Utopia. SecondSquat's model of this Utopia is designed to remove the usual barriers that prevent free flight within such online worlds. The installation offers a playful way of experiencing virtual space and for actively participating within this Utopia.
Biography:
Prior to 2004, active as a journalist and producer of documentary films, first in Switzerland and Germany, and then in Austria.
Studies in Digital Art at the Vienna University of Applied Arts under Peter Weibel, Tom Fürstner, Ruth Schnell, Virgil Widrich. Diploma in June 2009.
Artistic work in areas including human existence in virtual and real space.
Since 2002 various group exhibitions in Zurich and Vienna, also including the,
Digital Traces/THE ESSENCE, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Vienna 2009, and (mis)used media, exhibition of the Digital Art Department, Vienna 2007.
Website:
www.ctopia.net
Raoul Haspel
“Pornspot”
Interactive light and video installation
2009
LCD monitors installed in close succession are backlit by a follow spotlight in such a way that it partially over-illuminates the content. It is thus unpleasant to look at these monitors showing advertisements for sex hotlines for long. Pornspot over-illuminates their intensity and makes the permeation by pornographic chuckholes physically experienceable.
Biography:
born1979, Vienna
Studies in Digital Art at the University of Applied Arts Vienna under Peter Weibel, Tom Fürstner, Ruth Schnell, Virgil Widrich and studies at the Medienskole, Copenhagen, Denmark. Diploma in June 2009.
Website:
www.raoulhaspel.com
Ilknur Yalvac
"RELAX"
Interactive sound sculpture
2009
RELAX is an interactive sound sculpture which creates a sound space by transforming our body language into sounds.
RELAX chair is a special interface, a new kind of musical instrument that you play with your body.
Biography:
born 1979, Istanbul
1998-2002 Bachelor studies in Visual Communications Design at the Bilgi Universitesi, Istanbul. 2002-2009 Studies in Digital Art at the Vienna University of Applied Arts under Peter Weibel, Tom Fürstner, Ruth Schnell, Virgil Widrich. Diploma in June 2009.
Artistic focus: interactive animation, video, installations...
Exhibition participations including:
Digital Traces/THE ESSENCE, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Vienna 2009
Websites:
http://www.digitalekunst.ac.at/diplome
http://relaxchair.wordpress.com/
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