Become and Break – Algorithmic ensemble of computer-aided performers
Become and Break is an ongoing project of audiovisual kinetic light sculptures. Tim Auzinger and Daniel Baer explore how personal and social rhythms may be discovered in the algorithmic choreographies of an ensemble of computer-aided performers.
Residual Lines – Fragility of Knowledge
Residual Lines is a redaction machine that visualizes the loss of new knowledge tied to recent research grant cuts.
Seesaw Economy Manifesto – A mechanism of worth, care, and emotional resonance
Seesaw Economy Manifesto is a relational installation that reimagines value exchange through embodied interaction, ambiguity, and co-created meaning. Departing from the metaphor of economic balance as a static scale—neutral, rigid, and abstract—th...
Noise Surround System – Bringing city noise into philharmonic
Noise sampled from the city soundscape transformed into spatial audiovisual choreography, subversively confronting philharmonic audience with a problem of noise pollution.
Pipo Interfaces – A new playground for creative sensing
Pipo Interfaces brings a new versatile toolkit for creative sensing and audiovisual interaction in real-time. Developed by creative technologist Rupert Renevier, Pipo is a range of electronics sensor modules that simplify creative interactivity be...
Renment – Writing with (linear) objects
Inspired by Charles Dickens' aphorism, 'We forge the chains we wear in life,' Yuichiro Katsumoto created a device that forms letters with chains. For Yuichiro, the chain is a metaphor for heavy and unbreakable things that bind our ideas and emotio...
Vague Boundaries – Particles, lines, and waves
Created by Jonghong Park, Vague Boundaries explores 'boundaries' between matter and phenomena. The custom made machine draws straight lines continuously on the paper by snapping the thread with the mechanism of the chalk line tool.
Sisyphus – Construction, Deconstruction, Power and Resistance
Created by Kachi Chan, 'Sisyphus' is an installation featuring two robots engaged in endless cyclic interaction. Smaller robots build brick arches, whilst a giant robot pushes them down – propelling a narrative of construction and deconstruction.
Fantastic Smartphones – ECAL MID
Fantastic Smartphones, alternative accessories, interactive installations and machine performances highlight the excesses relating to our use of these devices. By imagining innovative ways of interacting with our smartphones or by delegating our r...
Icons – Our cultural “imaginarium” of digital gestures
Created by panGenerator, "Icons" is an exhibition exploring our shared cultural "imaginarium" of digital gestures, symbols, and artefacts, dragging them out onto a physical space, enabling audiences a direct, tactile confrontation and – also liter...
SFPC Fall 2019 Student Showcase
SFPC tutor Celine Wong Katzman reflects on yet another successful session at the artist run school in New York.
SFPC Spring 2019 Student Showcase
SFPC tutors Celine Wong Katzman and Taeyoon Choi reflect on yet another successful session at the artist run school in New York. SFPC Fall 2019 Open Call is live now!
Encounter – Suspiciously curious robotics
Created by Piet Schmidt during the summer semester at UdK Berlin (New Media / Digital Class), Encounter is a a robotic arm with a mirror that curiously observes its surroundings.
ChineseWhispers – Inaccurately transmitted gossip
Created by Saurabh Datta, "ChineseWhispers" is an installation comprised of four head figures performing "Chinese Whispers" – a sequence of repetitions of a story, each one differing slightly from the original, so that the final telling bears only...
Synthetic Pollenizer – Robotic interventions in the real-world ecological systems
Created by Michael Candy, "Synthetic Pollenizer" is a conceptual intervention in real-world ecological systems using artificial flowers. Inspired by natural pollenizers, these robotic replicas artificially pollinate bees, integrating into the repr...
Positions of the Unknown – Tracking 52 secret satellites in Earth’s orbit
Created by Juliane Götz and Sebastian Neitsch of Quadrature and currently on view within the Ars Electronica exhibition at the DRIVE Volkswagen Group Forum in Berlin, “Positions of the Unknown” is an installation of 52 custom-made mini machines th...
Mojigen and Sujigen – Writing letters and numbers with servos using a time axis
Created by Yuichiro Katsumoto, Mojigen and Sujigen is a collection of servo motors, connected together to write a letter by the means of manipulating the axis of the motor.
Study for Fifteen Points – Random International
Created by Random International, Study for Fifteen Points explores the minimal amount of information that is necessary for the animated form to be recognised as human; and the fundamental impact created by subtle changes within that information.
Order+Noise (Interface I) – Negotiating the boundary of randomness
Created by Ralf Baecker and opening this week at the NOME gallery in Berlin, Order+Noise (Interface I) investigates the boundary and space created by two interacting systems that are set in motion by the random signals of Geiger-Müller tubes.
Bits And Pieces – An organic wave of Hoberman Spheres
Currently on show at Berlin's NOME Gallery is the latest work by Nils Völker titled Bits And Pieces. The installation consists out of 108 mass-produced toy spheres hanging in the middle of the exhibition space, individually addressable and control...
Stewart – A mutually trustful interface for a fully autonomous car
Created by Felix Ros, Stewart is a hypothetical tactile interface designed for a fully autonomous car with objective to accommodate a healthy relation between man and machine.
Trace Ribbon – An emergence by movement
Created by Shohei Fujimoto, Trace Ribbon is a device that automatically and continuously records and plays back movement. From reading the movements of the user via Leap Motion, it mirrors an organism that does not actually exist while simultaneou...
Making ‘Moon Phases’ tangible and poetic
Created by Yingjie Bei and Yifan Hu at ITP, Moon Phases allows the audience to input any date and it will show the moon phase for that night (from the northern hemisphere's perspective).
String Fountain by Paolo Salvagione
Created by Paolo Salvagione, String Fountain is a kinetic sculpture that uses propulsion to elevate a continuous piece of string into the air.
Mechanical (Interactive) Cartoon Installation by Eunyoung Park
Eunyoung Park explores the awkwardness of gaze in this installation comprised of Arduino, ultrasonic ping sensors and cardboard.
May The Force Be With You – Teo Park
Created by Seoul based artists Teo Park, "May the Force be With You" is a kinetic installation that invites visitors to interact with an interactive water tank. The tank uses gravitational force driven by the position of the viewer's hand movement.
BNJMN – “Mobile sensory image production mechanism”
BNJMN is a "mobile sensory image production mechanism" with sole purpose to create original artworks by roaming in search of paper, painting whatever he wants, and signing it before he moves on to start the cycle again.