Cyber/space. Localizations in art and science

“Projektmodul” at Bauhaus-University Weimar (Media Environments)

The project examines “cyber” and “space” as technological and scientific fields and subjects of artistic practice: Cybernetics, computer art, interaction, networks and space are put into relation to each other in order to develop contemporary positions in art and design – projects dealing with real and mediated space and the interconnections between both.

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Locative Arts – Neue Erzählung des Raums?

Laura Popplow, Lasse Scherffig: Locative Arts – Neue Erzählung des Raums?, in: Regine Buschauer, Katharine S. Willis (eds.): Locative Media. Medialität und Räumlichkeit – Multidisziplinäre Perspektiven zur Verortung der Medien /Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Media and Locality, Transcript, Bielefeld, 2013, 277-295

planes

Installation, 2012

Antenna, radio receiver, computer, custom software

Tapping into the communication infrastructure of global travel and transport, the installation planes uses an antenna and a radio receiver to receive and decode messages from commercial airplanes. Using the flight and plane identification numbers of each plane, an image of that very plane is downloaded from an internet archive and displayed on screen.

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