2008
Us and that Darn Dialectic
Artist: Thomas Willis
Location: Berlin - Nightscreen-Gasometer
Apparently paradox situations out of the daily human life, a jittery in between, open and closed eyes: A non-linear stop-motion film made from opposing terms. They are randomly juxtaposed, and combined with portraits of people living in the Schöneberg neighbourhood.
Photographer: Sebastian Heise
www.batah.de/wirunddieverflixtedialektik
The Mood Gasometer
Artists: R. Wilhelmer, J. v. Bismarck, B. Maus
Location: Berlin - Nightscreen-Gasometer
The Gasometer is a megalomaniac barometer of the city: Hidden face-to-recognition cameras measure the average state of minds of passers-by. Their moods will light up above the city, transformed in colours, forms, and symbols.
www.fühlometer.de; www.richardwilhelmer.com; www.juliusvonbismarck.com;
Metamorphic Spirit
Artists: Yuka Oyama and Becky Yee
Location: Berlin - Nightscreen-Gasometer
Stress, information overload, the capitalist way of life: How do we sustain our mental health? Animal masks out of recycled materials are created in a participatory dialog with neighbours, representing their individual survival strategies in the jungle of the city, and lighting up the sky to inspire confidence.
Formsoftime
Artist: Dominik Eggermann
Location: Berlin - Nightscreen-Gasometer
Media facades as interface: The space as programme generates fractal patterns and an interplay of colour and pixels. Digital information transformations of visual and dramaturgical elements from the surroundings lighten up Berlin-Schöneberg at night.
Animare
Artists: Wendela Loman, Benjamin Frenzel and Frederic Gmeiner
Location: Berlin - SAP facade
Interactive video projection for the shop-window of SAP Berlin. As people in the street passing by the windows, the actors inside the screens start to continue drawing paintings in correlation to the movements of the pedestrians.
Moving Memories
Artists: Yvonne Weber, Sabine Haerri, Holger Frei and Dennis Radtke
Location: Berlin - SAP facade
Saved impressions, culminations of occurrences from the media facade’s memory: They will be condensed into a subjective picture that is exposed to the process of forgetting. Four different interaction criteria control the photographic recordings of movement in the surrounding space.
Cities Tango
Artists: Ernest Edmonds
Location: Berlin - SAP facade
Two cities, communities in Melbourne and Berlin, will interact across
continents and time zones. In each location the work will pick up sound from
the screen location and react to it. The analysed image information will form
the other cities work’s behaviour. Stripes of ‘night and day colours’ will be
segments of images of the remote location at different times of the day
mixed with real time snap shots of the remote site.
PhotoKinetik
Artist: Frank Huelsboemer
Location: Berlin - Collegium Hungaricum Berlin (CHB)
'PhotoKinetik' is a collage of the series 'change indicator', 'how B
became A', 'quarter revolution' and 'the tennis speed of life' zusammen.
A wiring und looping of a photographic flip-book of kinetic objects.
Geometric forms of mirrors, reflections and paper serve as metaphor of
the 'human condition'.
We are urban!
Artists: VR/URBAN - Patrick Tobias Fischer, Christian Zöllner, Thilo Hoffmann, Rasim Korkot
Location: Berlin - Wall Terminal
… an experimental Speakers Corner and Agora for Berlin: Anyone can leave news and commentary via a touchpad panel. The Spread.gun will catapult the typed messages into the city space, while immediate feedback by the passers-by will be guaranteed through a large scale projection in the public space.