Archive
- The End
- Data Brokers, Broken Data
- Radicalization Pipeline
- The sheep market
- 8,5 faces
- sound-city
- pendulum-choir
- Image Fulgurator
- 第二個地方 / The Second Place
- Life After BOB: The Chalice Study
- LAUREN
- Appeel
- Bodies in Motion
- The Only Certainty
- Living the City
- Kinetic Sculpture
- Landscape Painting (Quarry)
- Off the Map
- Interface I
- Floating Codes
- Trying since xx/xx/xxxx xx:xx
- rheo: 5 horizons
- Liquid Language: Etude of Gestures
- Mobility — Reflective Kinematronic II
- Octfalls
- Otto
- DIS/PLAY
- Mona Hatoum: Home and Identity, from Figure to Frame and from Frame to Figure
- Casting History
- Shibboleth
- On the Eve of Never Leaving
- We Will Sing
- AVALANCHE
- Alicja Kwade | In Blur
- Staircase-III
by Andrea Galvani
2013-2019
Developed over two years of research conducted in the United States and Mexico, The End is a trilogy of exhibitions unfolding in multiple manifestations. The End [Action #1], an Art in General New Commission, is a site-specific, multichannel video installation documenting one collective action, an homage to the heliocentric model...
by Kim Albrecht
2024 -
Whenever you browse the internet, you are being tracked, categorized, and sold to the highest bidder. This project visualizes the segments into which data brokers divide us.Data brokers collect and sell digital information about individuals. While they operate using personal information, their actions remain largely obscured and unknown to those...
by Aaron Kolbin
2006
TheSheepMarket.com is a collection of 10,000 sheep made by workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk.Workers were paid 0.02 ($USD) to "draw a sheep facing to the left." Animations of each sheep's creation may be viewed at TheSheepMarket.com.
by Maria Mavropoulou
2020
According to a statistic study the average internet user in 2019 has 8,5 accounts on social platforms.Every platform has a different purpose, either to stay in contact with friends and family, to find the best job opportunities or even to find a romantic partner. It seems that nowadays there is...
by Cod.Act
2018
A sound installation featuring an old guitar amplifier modified with a mechanical prosthesis, suspended from the ceiling and playing a distorted rock song. The music dynamically reacts to the amplifier's movements, created by the interaction of two coupled harmonic oscillators. The song, "The Wind" by PJ Harvey, is recomposed in...
by Michel Décosterd and André Décosterd
2010
Pendulum Choir is an original choral piece for 9 A Cappella voices and 18 hydraulic jacks. The choir stands on tilting platforms, constituting a living, sonorous body that expresses itself through various physical states. The bodies of the singers and their voices play with and against gravity, creating subtle vocal...
by Julius von Bismarck
2007-2011
Image Fulgurator is a device that secretly manipulates other people's photographs at the moment they are taken. It uses a flash projection synchronized with other cameras' flashes to subtly alter the image. The alteration is only visible after the photo is developed. The device is housed in a regular SLR...
by Tsai Tsung-Hsun
2019
Winter, 2018, distrait as I was, I came to Berlin alone for a half-year stay. It was the first time I felt deeply of the change due to time and space variation. The strangeness of objects in new environment seized me with a chilling clarity. As I reassure the space...
by Ian Cheng
2021-2022
Life After BOB (LAB) is a 50-minute anime movie built in the Unity game engine. It imagines a future where the internet is integrated into our nervous systems, psychotropic foods blur physical and psychic realities, and AI entities co-inhabit human minds. The Chalice Study, episode one, follows Dr. Wong, a...
by Lauren McCarthy
2019-2020
LAUREN Testimonials film and 360 photography by David Leonard. This project was supported in part by Sundance Institute’s New Frontier Lab Programs, with a grant from Turner Broadcasting, and UCLA. LAUREN is a performance and installation where the artist becomes a human Alexa, monitoring and controlling a home equipped with...
by Studio TheGreenEyl
2007
"Appeel" is a game without rules. It begins with a wall completely covered in signal-red adhesive foil. Thousands of circular stickers are pre-cut in a tight grid, waiting for visitors to peel them off and rearrange them. The stickers, and their white negative space on the wall, form ornaments, news,...
by Todd Bracher and Studio TheGreenEyl
2019
Bodies in Motion is an immersive light installation created for Humanscale at Milan Design Week 2019. Inspired by Humanscale’s history and research by Gunnar Johansson (1973), the installation uses lights on key points of the human body to highlight movement. Visitors' bodies are scanned, and 16 motorized lights project beams...
by Studio TheGreenEyl
2020
Curatorial Team: Lukas Feireiss, Tatjana Schneider and TheGreenEyl. General contractor: TheGreenEyl GmbH. Exhibition design: TheGreenEyl. Graphic Design: Lamm & Kirch. Photos 1-2: Schnepp-Renou. Photos 3-4: Allard van der Hoek. Photos 5-7: Jörg Brüggemann. Commissioned by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community within the framework of the National...
by ART+COM & Jussi Ängeslevä
2008
The "Kinetic Sculpture" metaphorically translates into space the form-finding process of vehicle design. The interplay of mechanical and electronic components creates a dynamic art piece reflecting the precise exchange between a great number of individual elements and the single, coherent picture that emerges from them. Attached by thin steel wires...
by Julius von Bismarck
2021
In *Landscape Painting (Quarry)* (2021), Julius von Bismarck creates a picture not of, but in a volcanic landscape. He eliminates the boundary between subject and object, physically confronting the landscape's monumental dimensions. The resulting image, born from this struggle, shifts the artist's inner conflict to the exterior. Bismarck breaks with...
by Wu Chi-Tsung
2013
Off the Map is a profoundly poetic and hypnotic performance that creates a space for contemplation. The piece features a female dancer moving slowly and deliberately in a setting that evokes dawn, sky, clouds, sea, or night. The performance uses a minimalist stage design (white screen and car window film)...
by Ralf Baecker
2016
Represented by NOME Gallery. Produced by NOME Gallery (4,80 meter version) and the Graduate School of the University of the Arts, Berlin (3,20 meter version) with support of the Einstein Foundation. Photographies by Bresadola+Freese drama-berlin.de. Research and experiments essential to the realization of the installation were carried out within the...
by Ralf Baecker
2022
Assistance: Timo Johannes, Juan Luque Valbuena and Felix Fisgus Floating Codes is a site-specific light and sound installation that explores the inner workings and hidden aesthetics of artificial neural networks, the fundamental building blocks of machine learning systems. The exhibition space itself becomes an organism of light and sound. Through...
by Julian Netzer
2020
Developed in the new media class at UdK Berlin | Supervisors: Prof. Joachim Sauter, Luiz Zanotello. Machine learning agents learning to climb up stairs. The agents started without any knowledge about the task and try to maximize their reward. The closer they get to the target - the top of...
by RYOICHI KUROKAWA
2010
This audiovisual installation, *rheo: 5 horizons*, consists of 5 HD displays and a 5-channel multi-sound system. The piece runs on a continuous 8-minute loop. The project was exhibited at various locations including: Ottakringerbrauerei, Alte Technik (Vienna, 2011); ARS Electronica, Tabakfabrik (Linz, 2010); Lexus. Hybrid Art, Vetoshny (Moscow, 2010); and Japan...
by Dawoon Park
2024
The video installation explores the idea of iconic translation—how visual impressions can be transformed into new sensory forms. Footage capturing light reflected on the surface of the Spree River—rippling waves, drifting clouds, and fleeting glints—is juxtaposed with Benjamin West’s Narcissus and Echo and a series of vocal-gestural performances. Rather than...
by ART+COM Studios
2010
Commissioned by Ottobock for Expo Shanghai 2010, Mobility is now part of the permanent exhibition at the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, Austria. The artwork uses a grid of one hundred white prosthetic hands, each holding a small mirror and actuated by stepper motors to rotate. A light source shines...
by Ryoichi Kurokawa
2011
© 2011 RYOICHI KUROKAWA. All rights reserved. Audiovisual installation. Duration: 08'00". The work was shown at the 54th Venice Biennale, Arsenale Novissimo, Venice in 2011 as part of "One of a thousand ways to defeat entropy". It was also exhibited at K11, Wuhan in 2018 (solo exhibition: fluxes), and Post...
by Gentle Systems
2025
This project began as a challenge to explore the intersection of technical demands and creative openness using two robotic arms. Inspired by Frei Otto's work with soap, tension, and physical models, the team aimed to create a method for exploring complex ideas in robotics with speed and precision, without predefined...
by Ralf Baecker
2023
Credits: Concept: Ralf Baecker; Creative and technical direction: Ralf Baecker; Hardware/PCB development: Felix Fisgus; Product design and enclosure development: Joris Wegner; Production and assistance: Timo Johannes, Luca Izzolino and Antje Weller; Assistance: Timo Johannes; Software development support: Julian Hespenheide; Special thanks to: Annika Gödde and Patrick Schulte. DIS/PLAY is a...
by Mona Hatoum
1996, 2000, 2001-2002, 2011
This paper, written by Roxanne Sbitti for an art history class, analyzes three of Mona Hatoum's works: *Present Tense* (1996), *Homebound* (2000), and *Drowning Sorrows* (2001-2002). It explores how Hatoum, a Palestinian artist, uses her experiences of exile and displacement to create art that engages with themes of home, identity,...
by Rachel Whiteread
2025
Alison McDonald, chief creative officer at Gagosian, interviews Rachel Whiteread about her work, focusing on several key projects. The conversation explores Whiteread's approach to memorializing significant historical events and her use of casting to imbue everyday objects with new meaning and permanence. Projects discussed include the Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial in...
by Doris Salcedo
2007
Shibboleth, a £300,000 installation by Colombian artist Doris Salcedo, was the eighth commission in the Unilever Series at Tate Modern, London. Engineer Stuart Smith oversaw the work's realization and installation. The artwork consisted of a 548-foot (167-meter) long crack in the Turbine Hall floor, widening from a hairline fracture to...
by Tatiana Trouvé
2018
The exhibition “On the Eve of Never Leaving” features new drawings and sculptures by Tatiana Trouvé. The works explore the relationship between memory and material, creating scenes that blend forests, studios, streets, and dreams. A central piece, "The Shaman," depicts an uprooted tree submerged in water on a cracked concrete...
by Ann Hamilton
2025
Curated by June Hill and Jennifer Hallam, We Will Sing features vocal and music collaborations with Emily Eagen and a new film created by Bradford-based filmmaker Ali Lycett that contextualises Hamilton’s practice and documents the making of the installation. The installation draws on the origins of the textile processes that...
by Tadashi Kawamata
2024
“AVALANCHE” is a special installation by Tadashi Kawamata for PHILÉO, supported by adidas. It was displayed in the Courtyard at Dover Street Market Paris from Saturday, September 21st to Saturday, October 5th, 2024.
by Alicja Kwade
2022
Images by Lance Gerber. In Kwade’s large-scale installation IN BLUR, nothing is quite what it seems. Using double-sided mirrors and carefully placed paired natural objects like stones, bushes, and trees, the artist achieves the illusion of sudden and surprising transformations. The mirror glass conceals part of one of the objects,...
by Do Ho Suh
2010
The artwork was acquired with funds provided by the Asia-Pacific Acquisitions Committee in 2011. Staircase-III is a large-scale sculpture created from polyester and stainless steel. It's a meticulously detailed recreation of a staircase, suggesting themes of home, memory, and displacement. The translucent quality of the polyester allows for a layering...