Garden Exhibition

Kepler's Garden on the JKU campus

9.-13. Sept
Entrance only with valid ticket! Information on tickets and opening times

The Garden Exhibition on the JKU campus in Linz is dedicated to the interplay of art, research and industry/design. Selected works of art take up the metaphor of the garden playfully and in different ways.

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Above the Below
Mathieu Zurstrassen (BE)

_ /bəˈloʊ/ is an exterior sound installation, featuring a pipe emitting an audio file emerging from the ground. The audio file is a lecture from the book *How to Analyze People on Sight*, written in 1921 by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict.

Air on Air
Yasuaki Kakehi (JP), Daisuke Akatsuka (JP), Juri Fujii (JP), Yoshimori Yoshikawa(JP), Joung Min Han (KR)

This work is an installation that connects distant places online. Bubble machines at the installation site then creates soap bubbles based on the breath data of online participants in real time. Through a web browser, they can see the bubbles floating in the air as if they are blowing in person at the venue. This work allows participants to feel the air in a remote location. And it also gives them a way to communicate to the remote location ”physically” in these times of restricted mobility.

Derotation
Domas Schwarz (AT)

“Derotation” is an installation about a looping video of a windmill shown on a screen rotating at the same speed in the opposite direction. The movement of a wind wheel, known for generating electricity, is visually stopped and derotated by the motion of a motor, known for consuming energy. Two different aims lead to a standstill: another instance of power wastage in media art?

Elsa On The Moon
Mathieu Zurstrassen (BE)

Elsa on the Moon is a kinetic sculpture tribute to Elsa Von Freytag Loringhoven, eccentric baroness and contemporary of Marcel Duchamp; ambiguously attributed with the creation Fountain, in 1917. Or was it Louise Norton? The work consists of a robotic leg capped with a ceramic urinal. The device is balanced with counterweights through an extended aluminum arm.

Ethereal Fleeting
Lukas Truniger (CH), Itamar Bergfreund (CH), Bruce Yoder (US)

Eine Serie von Wolken, erzeugt von einer maschinenähnlichen Skulptur, schwebt in ihrer Umgebung und löst sich langsam wieder in Luft auf. Dieses vermeintlich natürliche Phänomen zeigt sich in merkwürdig wiederholenden Mustern.

God is Dog spelled Backwards
Mathieu Zurstrassen (BE)

God is dog spelled backwards is a 360° kinetic artwork, and a tribute to Guy Debord’s La société du Spectacle, first published in 1967.

Klangfahnen
Sounding Linz

The Klangfahnen were developed and woven for Sounding Linz to mark urban places with great symbolic power for the urban quality of the city.

Kōrero Paki (Our stories of the legends)
Yinan Liu (NZ), Jermaine Leef (NZ), Uwe Rieger (DE/ NZ), Holly White (NZ)

Kōrero Paki takes key moments from the Maori mythology and transforms them into 3D holographic sculptures displayed on personal handheld devices. Using a simplified motion capture process, a performer transforms the drawings into animated narratives. Viewed with simple red/cyan cardboard glasses, these sculptures are perceived as hovering above the surface of a smartphone and appear to be dancing in the viewer’s hand.

lovesmenot
Sebastian Wolf (DE)

lovesmenot is part of an ongoing series of automata exploring our relationship with machines and the absurdity of over-automation. In this work, a machine plucks the petals of a daisy one by one, looking for answers to a question that will never be revealed to the observer. It hereby imitates a typically human action, a rite of sorts that usually attains its meaning solely through the human element. The machine does not serve anyone but itself, the answers obtained are never revealed.

Machine in Flux – Wood
Sunjoo Lee (KR), Ko de Beer (NL)

A documentation and cartography of time and environment inspired by the growth mechanism of the tree’s annual rings. The machine sensitively responds to changes of light, wind, temperature, humidity and sound – and inscribes these influences using ink on paper.

Marinero – Tailored by weather
Jef Montes (NL)

The focus of Marinero is to create an architectural blueprint that transforms organically over the course of time. The vision is to design a new kind of production system resulting in adaptive garments that grow with us individually. The weavings have a warp of monofilament and a weft of integrated variable threads. The combination of these threads causes friction and results in dynamic shapes during different meteorological conditions such as: rain, heavy wind or drought.

A Diverse Monoculture
Jip van Leeuwenstein (NL)

”A Diverse Monoculture” is a new family of artificial species, which together form a hive of new predators. These predators are used in an attempt to restore the balance within our ecosystem. The first robot predator in the family is the Dionea Mechanica Muscipula, a creature designed to attract and digest oak processionary moths. The Dionaea Mechanica Muscipula is developed to reduce the population of oak processionary moths, an increasing plague.

Political Atmosphere
Felix Lenz (AT)

“Political Atmosphere” is an experiential installation amplifying the invisible connections between flight turbulence, climate change and war. It consists of a data-driven mechanical siren and an ADS-B antenna, which allows for receiving, processing and visualizing the surrounding flight traffic. Each flight slowly accelerates the latent build-up of potential until a threshold is passed and a mechanism releases the siren.

Still There
Marlene Reischl (AT)

“Still There” is a video installation dealing with irritation as a state. Manipulated through Frame Blending, the computer transforms the images it has been given to generate new intermediate ones by itself.

Zugzwang – The Compulsion to Find a Common Baseline in Sound
Christina Gruber (AT), Samuel Hertz (US)

Zugzwang explores how a non-human centered approach to the use of technology can help us tune in to our companion species & environments. Though sound is omnipresent, we have problems understanding. Miscommunication and distortion happen constantly. Can listening become a central asset in learning about our environment?

Strolling Between the Disciplines

The JKU campus as a place of encounter and as a place for projects that can only be discovered by strolling through the park and looking attentively into the air. JKU LIT @ Ars Electronica as well as the Garden Exhibition in Kepler’s Garden on the JKU Campus feature playful projects that combine various disciplines.