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Spatial Turn – Interactive Portfolio

FH JOANNEUM Institute of Design & Communication (AT)

The installation Spatial Turn shows numerous projects created by students in the fields of communication design, exhibition design, interaction design, media design and sound design from recent graduates of the Institute of Design & Communication of the University of Applied Sciences Graz as an interactive media portfolio experience.

Machine to Support the Starving Artist

Timm Burkhardt (DE)

This work is designed to undermine the vital but patronizing “Harz IV” agenda of the German government in which self-employed individuals must send in records of their expenses in order to verify the necessity of support. Made of stainless steel, this unobtrusive machine is suited for the harsh environments of the streets. It generates receipts for random items, quantities, and sale amounts. Each receipt is printed on thermal paper like an actual receipt and could be sent to the authorities.

Ghosthouse

h.o (INT)

A deep dive into the information “swamp” is a kind of out-of-body experience. Smartphones, tablets, computer screens, and televisions become gateways for our spirits to embark on a journey.

Mezza: Archivo Liberado

Gonzalo Mezza (CL), Sebastián Vidal Valenzuela (CL)

Mezza: Archivo Liberado reviews, in the eyes of a media art pioneer, the initial processes of technological implementation in Chilean art. By a selection of documents and works, the exhibition offers a revisionist view, presented as an exercise in media archeology, exploring one’s own history (of middle age) under different layers through a body of work that progressively models and anticipates important conflicts of today’s society.

DEEP FEELING – An Interactive Utopia

Dominik Einfalt, Noah von Stietencron, Class of Graphic Design, Prof. Oliver Kartak (AT), University of Applied Arts Vienna (AT)

Deep Feeling lets artificial intelligence experience human affection to enable the growth of a social, feeling and loving AI. This prototype of a computer input device is equipped with sensors that transmit human touch to the AI.

ANIFILM PRESENTS: CZECH ANIMATION NOW

In this selection of short films, you can discover brand new Czech creations. It is a very diverse portfolio of contemporary Czech production offering shorts by students, films by experienced authors, and experimental works. Since one of the main goals of Anifilm is to cover all domestic creations, the Czech Horizon (Český obzor) competition category was established recently. All of the films presented here took part in that national contest.

Chowndolo

Giacomo Lepri (IT)

The Chowndolo is an interactive sonic sculpture based on a magnetic pendulum: an oscillating stick whose trajectories are altered by magnets placed underneath the device.

Lasermice

So Kanno (JP)

Lasermice is a swarm robotic installation with 60 small robots, inspired by the synchronous behavior of insects like fireflies. Robots create a visible network via laser light-photodetector communication and generate a rhythm that continuously changes and that’s made audible by a solenoid striking the floor. The combination of a visible network and an audible rhythm is spatially deployed.

Prix BLOXHUB Interactive – how can we make cities more livable using digital technology?

Working at the intersection between Space, Technology and Behavior, the initiative was developed by The Alexandra Institute (DK), BLOXHUB (DK) and Ars Electronica (AT). Together, the partners wished to join forces in gathering and building new knowledge that can help companies, creatives and researchers achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 11; to make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.

Meditative Symbiosis

Jean Danton Laffert (CL), Karin Astudillo (CL), Camilo Gouet (CL)

Meditative Symbiosis is a trans-disciplinary project that explores the interdependence of a living organism and an electronic system. Composed of containers with plants and sensors inside, a cycle of mutual dependence is created between the growing process of the plants and the dynamic adaptation of the system, the sum of which generates an evolutionary, bio-electronic aesthetic.